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
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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 Asa Gray
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 nutlet has become hard, rougher and more strongly ribbed.
From Through a Microscope Something of the Science Together with many Curious Observations Indoor and Out and Directions for a Home-made Microscope. by Frederick Leroy Sargent
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 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.
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