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treelet

treelet noun: a small tree.

Noun

treelet (plural treelets)

  1. a small tree
    • At one extreme, the two plots in Malaysia are in tall, evergreen forest; have no regular dry season; and include over 800 tree and treelet species each.2000 May 26, Richard Condit et al., “Spatial Patterns in the Distribution of Tropical Tree Species”, in Science, volume 288, number 5470, →DOI, pages 1414–1418
    • The people are sorely in need of firewood, and not being far-seeing enough to realize what a menace it is to the country to denude it so unscientifically, they have razed every treelet.1920, Anne Elizabeth Caldwell (MacClanahan) Grenfell, Katie Spalding, Le Petit Nord

Forms of treelet

pluraltreelets

Origin of treelet

From tree + -let.

Questions about treelet

What does treelet mean?
Treelet means a small tree.
What part of speech is treelet?
Treelet is a noun.
What is the plural of treelet?
The plural of treelet is treelets.

Words near treelet in the dictionary

  1. treelength
  2. treelengths
  3. treeless
  4. treelessly
  5. treelessness
  6. treelet
  7. treelets
  8. treelike
  9. treelikeness
  10. treeline
  11. treelined

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