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nutlet

[ nuht-lit ]

noun

  1. a small nut; a small nutlike fruit or seed.
  2. the stone of a drupe.


nutlet

/ ˈʌٱɪ /

noun

  1. any of the one-seeded portions of a fruit, such as a labiate fruit, that fragments when mature
  2. the stone of a drupe, such as a plum
  3. a small nut
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of nutlet1

First recorded in 1855–60; nut + -let
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Example Sentences

Fruit a little seed-like nutlet, enclosed in a loose and separable membranous epicarp.

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The berry of several species of Vaccinium, and ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets.

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Ovary.—Of four nutlets; each having a deltoid, keeled disk and margined by long, flat prickles.

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The nutlet has become hard, rougher and more strongly ribbed.

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The keys are large, wide-winged, set opposite, the nutlets meeting in a straight line.

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