nutling

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noun

A small or juvenile nut; a nutlet.

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Meanings

nounnutling (plural nutlings)

plural nutlings

  1. rareA small or juvenile nut; a nutlet.

    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, [...]

    1917, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, volume 42, page 64

Origin

From nut + -ling.

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APA

nutling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nutling

MLA

“nutling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nutling. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nutling,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nutling.

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