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Definition of Nutlets
1. nutlet [n] - See also: nutlet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nutlets
Literary usage of Nutlets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Fruit ellipsoidal, glabrous ; nutlets usually 3-4. Leaves dull fin-gnu above ;
nest of nutlets about as long as thick . 8. ..."
2. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Herbs, rarely somewhat shrubby plants, commonly scabrous or » nutlets naked in
the base of the ... (- nutlets fixed by their very base to a flat receptacle, ..."
3. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"nutlets ovoid, attached for at least the lower half by a narrow, ... nutlets all
smooth. Groove of the nutlets simple, continuous to the base. IV. ..."
4. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1872)
"Drupe berry-like, composed of 4 - 9 one-seeded nutlets. Seeds anatropous, suspended.
... Drupe containing 4-9 nutlets. — Leaves evergreen or deciduous. ..."
5. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1901)
"nutlets large, depressed, covered all over with short peduncle. ... Stigmas mostly
Fruit separating into 4 one-celled one-seeded achene-like nutlets. ..."
6. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"L. texana Stems branched and floriferous from the base nutlets dissimilar ...
This widely naturalized species has the prickles of the nutlets quite distinct ..."
7. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1885)
"Margins of nutlets reflexed over their backs 9. OMPHALODES. ... nutlets attached
to a convex or conical carpophore, scar in the middle or lower half of the ..."
8. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"nutlets armed with barbed prickles. nutlets spreading or divergent, ...
nutlets unarmed. nutlets erect or incurved, the prickles on their backs or margins. ..."
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