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spearlets

spearlets is the plural of spearlet.

Meaning of spearlet

Noun

spearlet (plural spearlets)

  1. A small spear.
    • While the poisonous spearlets are now directed largely against rival males, the trait could well have served among ancestral monotremes as the equivalent of a bee’s sting, to ward off the Bigfeet that ever threatened to crush them.2008 May 13, Natalie Angier, “A Gene Map for the Cute Side of the Family”, in New York Times

Questions about spearlets

What is spearlets the plural of?
Spearlets is the plural of spearlet.

Words near spearlets in the dictionary

  1. spearheads
  2. spearing
  3. spearings
  4. spearless
  5. spearlet
  6. spearlets
  7. spearlike
  8. spearmaker
  9. spearmakers
  10. spearmaking
  11. spearman

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