"nutlet" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: nutlets [plural]
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *hnuts Proto-West Germanic *hnut Old English hnutu Middle English note English nut Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Old French -el Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Old French -eletbor. Middle English -let English -let English nutlet From nut + -let. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|nut|-let|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *hnuts Proto-West Germanic *hnut Old English hnutu Middle English note English nut Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Old French -el Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Old French -eletbor. Middle English -let English -let English nutlet [Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-West Germanic", "term" : "*hnut", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gmw-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Old English", "term" : "hnutu", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ang" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "note", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "nut", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }, { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "bor.", "keyword_label" : "Borrowed from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "diminutive", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "diminutive", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "diminutive", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "alt" : "*-elós", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "status" : "inline", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "agent nouns", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-lós", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*-elos", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "-lus", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "-ellus", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Old French", "term" : "-el", "lang" : "fro" }, { "id" : "diminutive", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "diminutive", "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "is_uncertain" : true, "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "verbal adjectives", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-tós", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*-tos", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Late Latin", "term" : "-ittus", "lang" : "la-lat" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Old French", "term" : "-et", "lang" : "fro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "Old French", "term" : "-elet", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "fro" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "-let", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "-let", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "nutlet", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="nutlet"> From nut + -let. Head templates: {{en-noun}} nutlet (plural nutlets)
  1. A small nut. Synonyms: nucule Translations (small nut): arrëz [feminine] (Albanian), ընկուզիկ (ənkuzik) (Armenian), oříšek [masculine] (Czech), nootje [neuter] (Dutch), nucule [feminine] (French), Nüsschen [neuter] (German), καρυδάκι (karydáki) [neuter] (Greek), nocciolino [masculine] (Italian), orzeszek [masculine] (Polish), оре́шек (oréšek) [feminine] (Russian), núcula [feminine] (Spanish), горі́шок (horíšok) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
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  2. (botany) One of the lobes or sections of the mature ovary of some members of the Boraginaceae, Verbenaceae, and Lamiaceae.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: nutlike, nuttish, nutty

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    {
      "word": "nutlike"
    },
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      "word": "nuttish"
    },
    {
      "word": "nutty"
    }
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          "ref": "1905, Maude Gridley Peterson, How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants When Not in Flower by Means of Fruit and Leaf, Macmillan, page 202:",
          "text": "Black crowberry. Empetrum nigrum. Crowberry Family. Fruit. — The black drupe is berrylike, globular, and incloses six to nine seedlike nutlets with a seed in each. The calyx is at the base and the stigma is at the apex. The drupes are solitary in the leaf axils. They are juicy, acid, edible, and serve as food for the Arctic birds.",
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          "ref": "2003, James B. Phipps, Robert J. O'Kennon, Ronald W. Lance, Hawthorns and Medlars, Portland, O.R.: Timber Press, →ISBN, page 57:",
          "text": "Other maloid genera with hard nutlets are Cotoneaster, Hesperomeles, Osteomeles, and Pyracantba, but each of these is quite different from Mespilus and Crataegus.",
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          "ref": "2017 January 9, Dan Garner, Hillforts of the Cheshire Ridge, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 253:",
          "text": "The only other identifiable plant macrofossil present was a nutlet of club-rush that was morphologically most similar to grey club-rush (Schoenoplectus cf tabernaemontani). This form of club-rush is most often found near the sea, although it also grows in marshes and dune-slacks.",
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          "word": "nucule"
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      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "lang_code": "sq",
      "sense": "small nut",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "arrëz"
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    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "lang_code": "hy",
      "roman": "ənkuzik",
      "sense": "small nut",
      "word": "ընկուզիկ"
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
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      "sense": "small nut",
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "sense": "small nut",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "nootje"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "small nut",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nucule"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "small nut",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Nüsschen"
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    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
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      "roman": "karydáki",
      "sense": "small nut",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "καρυδάκι"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "small nut",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "nocciolino"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "small nut",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "orzeszek"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "oréšek",
      "sense": "small nut",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "оре́шек"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "small nut",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "núcula"
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "lang_code": "uk",
      "roman": "horíšok",
      "sense": "small nut",
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      "word": "горі́шок"
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}

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