Nutling
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A small or juvenile nut; a nutlet. rare
"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, [...]"
Example
More examples"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, [...]"
Etymology
From nut + -ling.
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