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nounspearlet (plural spearlets)
plural spearlets
- 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.
2008 May 13, Natalie Angier, “A Gene Map for the Cute Side of the Family”, in New York Times
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spearlet. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spearlet
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“spearlet.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spearlet. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spearlet,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spearlet.
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