[f. TOOTH sb. + -LET.] A small tooth or tooth-like projection; a denticle.
1800. Misc. Tr., in Asiat. Ann. Reg., 264/2. Calyx very small, tubular, five toothed; toothlets short.
1884. W. K. Parker, Mammal. Descent, vii. 177. Notched … into eight or nine toothlets like a comb.
Hence Toothleted a., denticulate.
1812. New Bot. Gard., I. 47. The other [stems] having the bases of the petioles toothleted.
1845. Lindley, Sch. Bot., vi. (1858), 74. Leaves heart-shaped, with 5 angles, toothletted.
