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nutlet

nutlet noun: a small nut.

Noun

nutlet (plural nutlets)

  1. A small nut.
    • Black crowberry. Empetrum nigrum. Crowberry Family. Fruit. — The black drupe is berrylike, globular, and incloses six to nine seedlike nutlets with a seed in each. The calyx is at the base and the stigma is at the apex. The drupes are solitary in the leaf axils. They are juicy, acid, edible, and...1905, Maude Gridley Peterson, How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants When Not in Flower by Means of Fruit and Leaf, Macmillan, page 202
    • Other maloid genera with hard nutlets are Cotoneaster, Hesperomeles, Osteomeles, and Pyracantba, but each of these is quite different from Mespilus and Crataegus.2003, James B. Phipps, Robert J. O'Kennon, Ronald W. Lance, Hawthorns and Medlars, Portland, O.R.: Timber Press, →ISBN, page 57
    Synonyms:
    nucule
  2. One of the lobes or sections of the mature ovary of some members of the Boraginaceae, Verbenaceae, and Lamiaceae.

Examples of nutlet in a sentence

  • Fruit. — The black drupe is berrylike, globular, and incloses six to nine seedlike nutlets with a seed in each.1905, Maude Gridley Peterson, How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants When Not in Flower by Means of Fruit and Leaf, Macmillan, page 202:
  • The only other identifiable plant macrofossil present was a nutlet of club-rush that was morphologically most similar to grey club-rush (Schoenoplectus cf tabernaemontani).2017 January 9, Dan Garner, Hillforts of the Cheshire Ridge, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 253:

Synonyms of nutlet

Forms of nutlet

pluralnutlets

Origin of nutlet

From nut + -let.

Questions about nutlet

What does nutlet mean?
Nutlet means a small nut.
How do you use nutlet in a sentence?
Fruit. — The black drupe is berrylike, globular, and incloses six to nine seedlike nutlets with a seed in each.
What part of speech is nutlet?
Nutlet is a noun.
What is the plural of nutlet?
The plural of nutlet is nutlets.

Words near nutlet in the dictionary

  1. nutjobbery
  2. nutjobs
  3. nutjuice
  4. Nutkins
  5. nutless
  6. nutlet
  7. nutlets
  8. Nutley
  9. nutlike
  10. nutling
  11. nutlings

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