antlet
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
antlet (plural antlets)
- A small immature ant; an antling.
- 1903, Agnes Warner McClelland Daulton, Wings and Stings, page 107:
- […] if any one of the antlets wanted to come out of his silken covering he could be helped to cut his way through […]
- 1997, Larry Dean Olsen, Outdoor Survival Skills, page 3:
- I wondered whether ants found it necessary to hold classes of instruction for all upcoming antlets in order to maintain their organized and busy mound-building society.