Definition of "nutlet" [nut•let]

• A small nut. (noun)
• The stone or pit of certain fruits such as the peach or cherry. (noun)

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• "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 interested in the growing of the Persian walnut in the North and East."
• "This will, I think, help to fertilize the pistillate or nutlet blossoms on many of the trees."
• "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."