nutlet

American  

[nuht-lit] / ˈnʌt lɪt /

noun

1. a small nut; a small nutlike fruit or seed.

2. the stone of a drupe.

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nutlet British  

/ 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

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Etymology

Origin of nutlet

First recorded in 1855–60; nut + -let

Example Sentences

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 nutlet has become hard, rougher and more strongly ribbed.

From Through a Microscope Something of the Science Together with many Curious Observations Indoor and Out and Directions for a Home-made Microscope. by Sargent, Frederick Leroy

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

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 Gray, Asa

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.