nutlet.
/nuht-lit/US // ˈnʌt lɪt //UK // (ˈnʌtlɪt) //
小坚果,坚果,螺帽,螺母
Definitions
n.noun · 名词
- 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.
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