drakelet

Meanings

noundrakelet (plural drakelets)

A male duckling.
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.
1932, The Harper Adams Utility Poultry Journal, volume 17, page 553
Synonyms: drakeling

noundrakelet (plural drakelets)

A young dragon.
The only use a dragon has for the ground is some kind of rocky place where it can lay its eggs and rear the drakelets.
2001, Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea
Synonyms: dragling, dragonet, dragonette, dragonlet, dragonling

nounA male duckling.

Similar

nounA young dragon.

Also see

drakelet · noun

From drake (“a male duck”) + -let.

drakelet · noun

From drake (“a dragon”) + -let. Piecewise doublet of dragonlet.

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