Islet
['aɪlɪt] or ['aɪlət]
Definition
(n.) A little island.
Typed by Camilla
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Little island.
Typed by Lena
Examples
- They were blown hither and thither for two months, until sick and dying of scurvy, starvation, and thirst, they had been wrecked on a small islet. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Few of these islets contained over an acre of ground, but presently we sighted a much larger one directly ahead. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I shall delight to pass the shores of those lone rock-islets where the sea-birds live and breed unmolested. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- So it is with the plants and insects on small and uniform islets: also in small ponds of fresh water. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I am not sure, replied Crispin, straining his eyes; we are in the middle of a number of islets. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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