spearlet

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Definition of spearlet

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

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.”

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From spear + -let.

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