nutling

English

Etymology

From nut + -ling.

Noun

nutling (plural nutlings)

  1. (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, [...]

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