"spearlet" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "spear + -let",
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      "form": "spearlets",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2008 May 13, Natalie Angier, “A Gene Map for the Cute Side of the Family”, in New York Times",
          "text": "While the poisonous spearlets are now directed largely against rival males, the trait could well have served among ancestral monotremes as the equivalent of a bee’s sting, to ward off the Bigfeet that ever threatened to crush them.",
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        "A small spear."
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  "word": "spearlet"
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  "etymology_text": "spear + -let",
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      ],
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