ducklet
nounEtymology From duck + -let.
1
A small duck or duckling.
- 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!1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 148:
2
A young female duck.
- 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.1932, The Harper Adams Utility Poultry Journal, volume 17, page 553: