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nutlets

nutlets is the plural of nutlet.

Meaning of nutlet

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
    Synonyms:
    nucule
  2. One of the lobes or sections of the mature ovary of some members of the Boraginaceae, Verbenaceae, and Lamiaceae.

Questions about nutlets

What is nutlets the plural of?
Nutlets is the plural of nutlet.

Words near nutlets in the dictionary

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

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