in nuce

Latin

From in +‎ nuce, the ablative singular of nux (“nut”): literally, “in a nut”.

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in a nutshell; briefly stated
- c. 77 [1669], Pliny the Elder, translated by Harris Rackham, William Henry Samuel Jones, David Edward Eichholz, Naturalis Historia [Natural History], book 7, published 1938:
  in nuce inclusam Iliadem Homeri carmem in membrana scriptum tradit Cicero.
  Cicero records that a parchment copy of Homer's poem The Iliad was enclosed in a nutshell.
in the embryonic phase; said of something which is just developing or being developed