ducklet

English

Etymology

From duck +‎ -let.

Noun

ducklet (plural ducklets)

1. A small duck or duckling.
   • 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 148:

     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!

2. A young female duck.

   Synonym: duckling

   Coordinate terms: drakelet, drakeling

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

     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.