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Nutlet

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A small nut.

n. The stone or pit of certain fruits such as the peach or cherry.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A small nut.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A little nut; also, the stone of a drupe. See cuts under Carpinus and coffee.

n. In conchology, a nutshell.

n. One of the achene-like segments of a pericarp or schizocarp, as in the borage and mint families.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a small nut

Word Usage

"Above the ground she stores it in drupe and pome and berry, nut and nutlet and achene, and below the ground in rootstock and rhizome, corm and tuber, pumping them full with strokes quick and strong in these grand climacteric days of the summer."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

nut

Hyponym

pyrene

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

nucule acorn