nutlet

[ nuht-lit ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

nutlet

/ ˈnʌtlɪt /

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

Origin of nutlet¹

First recorded in 1855–60; nut + -let

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

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

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

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

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

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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