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, [...]

Anagrams

• lunting