spearlet

English

Etymology

spear +‎ -let

Noun

spearlet (plural spearlets)

1. A small spear.
   • 2008 May 13, Natalie Angier, “A Gene Map for the Cute Side of the Family”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

Anagrams

• Pterelas, pasteler, pleaters, prelates, replates, repleats, restaple