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islet

[ ahy-lit ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

islet

/ ˈaɪlɪt /

Origin of islet¹

From the Middle French word islette, dating back to 1530–40. See isle, -et

Origin of islet¹

C16: from Old French islette; see isle

Jobs learned in 2003 that he had an extremely rare form of this cancer, an islet-cell neuroendocrine tumor.

On a rocky islet in the centre of a fresh water pond two miles in circuit they commenced erecting a fort and store house.

Buache Island was visible as well as the small rocky islet between it and Cape Peron.

Off the entrance is a high rocky islet, the Nobby, within which the channel is shoal and dangerous to pass.

There is a reef that extends for nearly a mile and a half off the cape, having a rocky islet at its extremity.

Between the easternmost islet and the land, there is a strait of a league in width.

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