ducklet

plural 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!

   1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 148

   1. strictlyA 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.

      1932, The Harper Adams Utility Poultry Journal, volume 17, page 553

      Synonyms: duckling