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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A small nut.
  • noun The stone or pit of certain fruits such as the peach or cherry.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A little nut; also, the stone of a drupe. See cuts under Carpinus and coffee.
  • noun In conchology, a nutshell.
  • noun One of the achene-like segments of a pericarp or schizocarp, as in the borage and mint families.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A small nut; also, the stone of a drupe.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A small nut.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a small nut

Etymologies

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nut +‎ -let

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