nutlet

[ nuht-lit ]

noun

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

Origin of nutlet

First recorded in 1855–60; nut + -let

Words Nearby nutlet

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How to use nutlet in a sentence

Fruit a little seed-like nutlet, enclosed in a loose and separable membranous epicarp.
The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States | Asa Gray
Fruit drupe-like when fresh, more or less compressed; endocarp (nutlet) crustaceous.
The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States | Asa Gray
Utricle bursting irregularly, enclosing an oblong longitudinally ribbed seed (or nutlet).
The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States | Asa Gray
This will, I think, help to fertilize the pistillate or nutlet blossoms on many of the trees.
Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting | Various
Pyrene, Pyrena, a seed-like nutlet or stone of a small drupe.
The Elements of Botany | Asa Gray

British Dictionary definitions for nutlet

nutlet

/ (ˈnʌtlɪt) /

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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