birdlet

From bird +‎ -let.

birdlet (plural birdlets)

1. A small bird.

   Hyponyms: chick, nestling, fledgling

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     And if the Ichneumon, which is his mortall enemie approach to fight with him, the little birdlet, lest he might surprise him whilst he sleepeth, with his singing, and pecking him with his bill, awakens him, and gives him warning of the danger he is in.

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