nutling
nounEtymology From nut + -ling.
1
Rare A small or juvenile nut; a nutlet.
- 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, [...]1917, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, volume 42, page 64: