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名詞

drakelet (plural drakelets)

1. A male duckling.

   Synonym: drakeling

   Coordinate terms: ducklet, duckling

   • 1932, The Harper Adams Utility Poultry Journal, volume 17, page 553:

     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.

2. A young dragon.

   Synonym: dragling

   • 2018, Ursula K. Leguin, The Books of Earthsea, page 987:

     The only use a dragon has for the ground is some kind of rocky place where it can lay its eggs and rear the drakelets.