Definition of Nutlets. Meaning of Nutlets. Synonyms of Nutlets

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Definition of Nutlets

Nutlet
Nutlet Nut"let, n. (Bot.) A small nut; also, the stone of a drupe.

Meaning of Nutlets from wikipedia

- A nutlet is a small nut. Nutlet may also refer to: Pyrena or nutlet, a seed covered by a stony layer Nutlet or Oreshek, another name for Shlisselburg...
- be called a "nutlet" (formerly called a nucule, a term otherwise referring to the oogonium of stoneworts). In botany, the term "nutlet" can be used to...
- by wind or animals, these include nuts, achenes, caryopses, samaras and nutlets. In schizocarps, the fruit splits open but the seeds are not released,...
- The flower styles are two-cleft. The fruits are smooth ovoid or oblong nutlets and in many species they have a mucilaginous coating. Many members of Salvia...
- to form mericarps. A schizocarp of nutlets is derived from a carpel that becomes lobed, and the lobes become nutlets that split apart. Examples include...
- four subequal lobes, the upper lobe usually the largest. The fruit is a nutlet, containing one to four seeds. Mentha is a member of the tribe Mentheae...
- lobes and the lower one much wider with a scalloped edge. The fruit is a nutlet that is nearly triquetrous, three sided with sharp edges and concave sides...
- containing 10–30 flowers each. Pollinated female flowers develop into small nutlets 3–5 mm (1⁄8–3⁄16 in) long fully enclosed in a papery sac-shaped involucre...
- concave. Filaments are fused below into a tube around the style. The seeds (nutlets) are smooth, pale-brown, roundish flattened, c. 0.7 by 0.5 mm (0.028 by...
- four units, seeds. English terms are eremocarp, schizocarp, mericarp or nutlet. knee abrupt bend in a root or stem, commonly at a node; a cypress knee...