nutlet
Americannoun
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any of the one-seeded portions of a fruit, such as a labiate fruit, that fragments when mature
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the stone of a drupe, such as a plum
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a small nut
Etymology
Origin of nutlet
Example Sentences
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The shape of the nutlet and the character of its coat are very varied.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
The fruit is a berry-like, dry, 1 or 2 seeded, rounded nutlet ¼ to ½ an inch in diameter, covered with short, thick and brownish wool.
From Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them by Fuller George D.
The fruit is a bright scarlet “berry”, ½ inch long and containing a hard nutlet in which are 1 or 2 seeds.
From Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them by Fuller George D.
It is a nutlet about ⅓ of an inch long, attached to a leaf-like halberd-shaped bract which acts as a wing in aiding its distribution by the wind.
From Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them by Fuller George D.
Fruit.—In terminal catkins made conspicuous by the pale green, much enlarged, and leaf-like 3-lobed bracts, each bract subtending a dark-colored, sessile, striate nutlet.
From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Lorin Low Dame
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