rare. [f. as prec. + -LET.] A little tree; a young tree, a sapling.

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1874.  W. Cory, Lett. & Jrnls. (1897), 372. A dozen dead treelets.

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  So Treeling [-LING1.].

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1847.  Man in Moon, Feb., 103. These same treelings have an odd notion of coming out strong the first fine day in spring.

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1883.  O. W. Holmes, in 53rd Cincinnati School Rep., 99. I should delight in sending you a treeling.

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