treelet

English

Etymology

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”^[1], Science, volume 288, number 5470, DOI:10.1126/science.288.5470.1414, 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 and Katie Spalding, Le Petit Nord^[2]:

     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^[3]:

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

   • 1901, Stewart Edward White, The Claim Jumpers^[4]:

     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.