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Nutlike

adjective
1.
Having the flavor of nuts.  Synonym: nutty.
2.
Resembling a nut in shape and size.






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"Nutlike" Quotes from Famous Books



... cycads, were also present in the Carboniferous forests. Such were the different species of CORDAITES, trees pyramidal in shape, with strap-shaped leaves and nutlike fruit. Other gymnosperms were related to the yews, and it was by these that many of the fossil nuts found in the Coal Measures were borne. It is thought by some that the gymnosperms had their station on the drier plains ...
— The Elements of Geology • William Harmon Norton

... which arrange themselves for a clientele, of this character have usually thick or nauseous rinds, prickly husks, or other deterrent integuments; but they are full within of juicy pulp, embedding stony or nutlike seeds, which pass undigested through the gizzards ...
— Science in Arcady • Grant Allen



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