nutlet

American  

[nuht-lit] / ˈnʌt lɪt /

noun

1. a small nut; a small nutlike fruit or seed.

2. the stone of a drupe.

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nutlet British  

/ ˈnʌtlɪt /

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

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Etymology

Origin of nutlet

First recorded in 1855–60; nut + -let

Example Sentences

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

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Pyrene, Pyrena, a seed-like nutlet or stone of a small drupe.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

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 Dame, Lorin Low

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.

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