Ducklet

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A small duck or duckling.

    "Immediately there was a spurt of water, the flash of a quickening body - and that was the ducklet as he dived away to join his mates!"

  2. 2
    A small duck or duckling.; A young female duck.

    "The copulatory organ looks like a pinkish root tip and its presence denotes a drakelet. In the cloaca of a ducklet no such organ can be seen."

Synonyms

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duckling

Example

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"Immediately there was a spurt of water, the flash of a quickening body - and that was the ducklet as he dived away to join his mates!"

Etymology

From duck + -let.

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