nutlet

[ nuht-lit ]

noun

1. a small nut; a small nutlike fruit or seed.
2. the stone of a drupe.

nutlet

/ ˈnʌtlɪt /

noun

1. any of the one-seeded portions of a fruit, such as a labiate fruit, that fragments when mature
2. the stone of a drupe, such as a plum
3. a small nut

Word History and Origins

Origin of nutlet¹

First recorded in 1855–60; nut + -let

Example Sentences

Fruit a little seed-like nutlet, enclosed in a loose and separable membranous epicarp.

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Fruit drupe-like when fresh, more or less compressed; endocarp (nutlet) crustaceous.

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Utricle bursting irregularly, enclosing an oblong longitudinally ribbed seed (or nutlet).

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This will, I think, help to fertilize the pistillate or nutlet blossoms on many of the trees.

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Pyrene, Pyrena, a seed-like nutlet or stone of a small drupe.

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