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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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
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.
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.
This will, I think, help to fertilize the pistillate or nutlet blossoms on many of the trees.
From Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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
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