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n. - A small nut.

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Usage examples (6)
  • This will, I think, help to fertilize the pistillate or nutlet blossoms on many of the trees.
  • Hereafter it is my intention to keep a more detailed record of the time of the appearance of the nutlet blossoms of each tree, which is of the utmost importance to those...
  • Later: a small nut or nutlet; a section of a compound (usually hard) fruit; a nut borne in an involucre.
  • = -- In terminal catkins made conspicuous by the pale green, much enlarged, and leaf-like 3-lobed bracts, each bract subtending a dark-colored, sessile, striate nutlet.
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