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nutlet
[ nuht-lit ]
nutlet
/ ˈʌٱɪ /
noun
- any of the one-seeded portions of a fruit, such as a labiate fruit, that fragments when mature
- the stone of a drupe, such as a plum
- a small nut
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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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