treelet

plural treelets

1. a small tree

   A single tiny treelet broke the plain just at the skyline of the rise.

   1913, Stewart Edward White, The Land of Footprints

   3 more examples

   At one extreme, the two plots in Malaysia are in tall, evergreen forest; have no regular dry season; and include over 800 tree and treelet species each.

   2000 May 26, Richard Condit et al., “Spatial Patterns in the Distribution of Tropical Tree Species”, in Science, volume 288, number 5470, →DOI, pages 1414–1418

   The people are sorely in need of firewood, and not being far-seeing enough to realize what a menace it is to the country to denude it so unscientifically, they have razed every treelet.

   1920, Anne Elizabeth Caldwell (MacClanahan) Grenfell, Katie Spalding, Le Petit Nord

   Once a redbird shot confidently down from above on half-closed wing, caught sight of these intruders, brought up with a swish of feathers, and eyed them gravely for some time from a neighbouring treelet.

   1901, Stewart Edward White, The Claim Jumpers