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nutlet

/nuht-lit/US // ˈnʌt lɪt //UK // (ˈnʌtlɪt) //

小坚果,坚果,螺帽,螺母

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a small nut; a small nutlike fruit or seed.
    • : the stone of a drupe.

Examples

  • 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.