nutlet

NOUN
  1. a small nut
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  • At that time, fruit seediness or the number of enclosed ripe nutlets was also determined for each ripe fruit.
  • Each flower can produce four nutlets, which are primarily gravity dispersed.
  • This will, I think, help to fertilize the pistillate or nutlet blossoms on many of the trees. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913
  • It was not necaasary to desig - nate the residenoe of agents; indeed, it appeared nutlet of donbi whether they had power to ap - point BD aMut to reude in the British Colonies in the Wait Indies. The Debates and proceedings in the Congress of the United States
  • When dry, the plant behaves somewhat as follows: when the wind jostles the branches against each other, or when an animal of some kind hits the plant, this movement causes many of these cups to get caught; but the elastic stem comes suddenly back to its place, and in so doing flips a nutlet or more from its mouth one to six feet, somewhat as a boy would flip a pea with a pea-shooter. Seed Dispersal
  • -- Nutlet of stickseed, _Echinospermum_.] [Illustration: FIG. Seed Dispersal
  • 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. Some Summer Days in Iowa
  • These are the only other winter annuals at this site with spiny nutlets that are somewhat similar to those of P. recurvata.
  • Later: a small nut or nutlet; a section of a compound (usually hard) fruit; a nut borne in an involucre. Notes from underground
  • [5] Bluebells have taproots and their ovaries contain 4 nutlet seed colonies. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
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