putamen

American  

[pyoo-tay-min] / pjuˈteɪ mɪn /

noun

• putamina
  plural

1. Botany. a hard or stony endocarp, as a peach stone.

2. a shell membrane.

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putamen British  

/ pjuːˈteɪmɛn /

noun

1. the hard endocarp or stone of fruits such as the peach, plum, and cherry

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• putaminous
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• putamina
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of putamen

1820–30; < Latin putāmen, equivalent to putā ( re ) to prune, clean + -men resultative suffix

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

putamen

Two brain regions that commonly shrink and become less active with age are the putamen and the cerebellum.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 13, 2026

This is infused deep into the brain using real-time MRI scanning to guide a microcatheter to two brain regions - the caudate nucleus and the putamen.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2025

This suggests pharmacological treatments that target dopamine in the sensorimotor putamen could help combat these conditions, Boswell says.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 29, 2023

There is the putamen, which helps our limbs move.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2021

Drupe globular; the thin crustaceous putamen hollowed out like a cup on one side.

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

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