nutlets
Small dry fruits
Nutlets are small nuts or nut-like seeds.
The term appears most often in botany, describing the hard, dry, one-seeded fruit segments produced by plants in the mint and borage families: The plant produces four nutlets per flower.
Outside technical contexts, nutlets simply means little nuts.
Single-winged dry fruits
- pericarpMature ovary wall
- endocarpInner fruit wall
- carpelSeed-bearing flower organ
- ovaryFemale reproductive gland
ovule · pistil · inflorescence · receptacle · calyx · bracts · husk · seed coat
Extremely small in size
- minusculeExtremely small in size
- smallLimited in size
- miniatureReduced-scale representation
- petiteSmall and delicate
wee · diminutive · dainty · little · compact · fine · delicate · granular
New plant emergence
- seedlingRecently sprouted young plant
- propagationAct of spreading widely
- dormancySuspended biological activity
- scarificationIntentional shallow skin cuts
stratification · viability · embryo · cotyledon · radicle · plumule · endosperm · germinate
samaras
Single-winged dry fruits
ovary · ovule · pistil · inflorescence · receptacle · calyx · bracts · husk · seed coat · valve
tiny
Extremely small in size
petite · wee · diminutive · dainty · little · compact · fine · delicate · granular · pea-sized
sprout
New plant emergence
- seedlingRecently sprouted young plant
- propagationAct of spreading widely
- dormancySuspended biological activity
scarification · stratification · viability · embryo · cotyledon · radicle · plumule · endosperm · germinate · sow
hazelnut
Edible seed from Corylus
heartnut · palm kernel · groundnut · earthnut · pignut · cobnut