oakletn.
/ˈəʊklᵻt/, U.S. /ˈoʊklət/ Now rare.
A small or young oak tree.
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oakling1664
ground-oaka1723
oaklet1872
1872 W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 288 Straggling acacias and oaklets.
1879 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) II. xi. 242 On the ground near the tree little oaklets were successfully fighting for life.
1895 Science 8 Feb. 159/2 Discovering oaklets in acorns, and mighty oaks with dead branches and dying trunks.., I learn the history of the growth of oaks.
1935 Sci. Monthly Dec. 555/1 The trees produce crops of nutritious seeds—each seed nutritious either to the prospective oaklet or to the animal that eats it—in vast excess of immediate seeding needs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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