ducklet

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ducklet

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From duck + -let.

noun ducklets

  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. 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.

    Similar: duckling

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@misc{ducklet_2026,
  title = {ducklet},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ducklet},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}