Definition of Nutlet

1. Noun. A small nut.

Generic synonyms: Nut
Specialized synonyms: Pyrene

Definition of Nutlet

1. n. A small nut; also, the stone of a drupe.

Definition of Nutlet

1. Noun. A small nut. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nutlet

1. a small nut [n -S]

Medical Definition of Nutlet

1. A small nut; also, the stone of a drupe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nutlet

nuthatch
nuthatches
nuthin'
nuthook
nuthooks
nuthouse
nuthouses
nutil
nutjob
nutjobber
nutjobbers
nutjobbery
nutjobs
nutlet (current term)
nutlets
nutlike
nutly
nutmeal
nutmeals
nutmeat
nutmeats
nutmeg-yew
nutmeg family
nutmeg flower
nutmeg geranium
nutmeg hickory
nutmeg liver

Literary usage of Nutlet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"... usually pale with tino brown lines : filaments at length broad and exserted : bristles not ex- serted : nutlet broadly obovate, rounded at the summit, ..."

2. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"Longitudinal section of nutlet: R, radicle ; A, auricle of cotyledon; Pc, ... Seed conforming to the shape of the nutlet, and filling it entirely if ..."

3. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"(Greek pectos, combed, and karua, nut, on account of the row of bristles on the nutlet.) nutlets bordered by a wing which bears hooked bristles only at the ..."

4. Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences Granted by the Bishop of by William John Charles Moens, Church of England Diocese of Winchester (1893)
"nutlet, Joseph, junr., of Monxton, husbandman, & Anne Tates, of the a., sp., at M., Fyfield, or Weyhill, 25 Apl., 1718. NUTT, James, of St. Mary Calendar, ..."

5. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1872)
"Fruit of 4 two-celled nutlet! enclosed in the beaked calyx. THUS II. VITE*:. ... Fruit of 4 separate 1-celled nutlet«. Shrubs. TRIBE III. ..."

6. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"++ nutlet solitary (very rarely two maturing, the others early abortive), conspicuously acuminate, attached for not more than tue lower third to the short ..."

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