Definition of Fruitlets

1. fruitlet [n] - See also: fruitlet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fruitlets

fruitily
fruitiness
fruitinesses
fruiting
fruiting bodies
fruiting body
fruitings
fruition
fruitions
fruitive
fruitless
fruitlessly
fruitlessness
fruitlessnesses
fruitlet
fruitlets (current term)
fruitlike
fruitloop
fruitloopery
fruitloops
fruitness
fruits
fruits of the poisonous tree
fruitshop
fruitshops
fruitwood
fruitwoods
frum
frumentaceous

Literary usage of Fruitlets

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Evolutionist at Large by Grant Allen (1881)
"i8 THE EVOLUTIONIST AT LARGE. but when the seed begins to set the potentilla develops only a collection of dry fruitlets, seated upon a green receptacle, ..."

2. The Microscopy of Technical Products by Thomas Franz Hanausek (1907)
"... red receptacle of which bears the fruitlets within its cavity, and the strawberry with a fleshy, sweet-tasting, red receptacle bearing the fruitlets in ..."

3. Text-book of General Botany by Wilhelm Julius Behrens (1885)
"Fruits aggregate, often forming a rounded mass, the individual fruitlets either ... HAM M ni: K B. fruitlets several-seeded, mostly dehiscent. n. ..."

4. Select Extra-tropical Plants, Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1895)
"The fruitlets are occasionally utilised for condiment. Seed will keep for several years in cool climes, and it will ripen even in the hottest and driest ..."

5. Management Guide for Low-Input Sustainable Apple Production by Lorraine P. Berkett (1994)
"Frogeye leaf spot is most severe in cultivare such as 'Cortland' and 'Northern Spy', which retain poorly pollinated or chemically thinned fruitlets that ..."

6. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"of the succulent receptacle bearing the small yellow nut-like fruitlets. In the Apple the core only is the fruit, the succulent tissue being derived from ..."

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