spearlet

noun

Etymology

From spear + -let.

  1. derived from *sperH-
  2. inherited from *speru
  3. inherited from *speru
  4. inherited from spere
  5. inherited from spere
  6. suffixed as spearlet — “spear + let

Definitions

  1. 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.

The neighborhood

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