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islet

noun
/ˈaɪ.lət/

Etymology

From Middle French islette. By surface analysis, is(le) + -let. Mostly displaced native Middle English eyt, eit and Middle English holm, holme (See eyot and holm for more).

  1. inherited from holm
  2. inherited from eyt

Definitions

  1. A small island.

    • There is an islet on the other side of this body of water.

  2. An isolated piece of tissue that has a specific function.

The neighborhood

Derived

interislet, intraislet, isleted, islet of Langerhans, neoislet, pseudoislet

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for islet. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA