treelet

English

Etymology

From tree +‎ -let.

Noun

treelet (plural treelets)

1. a small tree
   • 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:

     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.

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

     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.

   • 1913, Stewart Edward White, The Land of Footprints‎:

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

   • 1901, Stewart Edward White, The Claim Jumpers‎:

     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.

Translations

a small tree

Esperanto: arbeto German: Bäumchen (de) n, Bäumlein (de) n Hungarian: fácska (hu) Polish: drzewko (pl) n