nutling
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]nutling (plural nutlings)
- (rare) A small or juvenile nut; a nutlet.
- 1917, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, volume 42, page 64:
- Seed is very hard to get; the carpels fall while yet green, and you have to quest around each clump to detect the green nutlings lurking here and there in the chinks of the shingle; and then the catching them becomes an agitating business, [...]