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punnet Definition

pun·net (punət)

noun

Brit. a small, shallow basket, as for fruits or vegetables

punnet Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • strawberry: Pull over to the side of the road to pick up tightly wrapped bundles of tender asparagus or punnets of sweet juicy strawberries.
  • raspberry: Gordon handed the last punnet of raspberries to Jo.
  • peach: There's no such thing as a " free " punnet of peaches.
  • plum: Sad tho it clearly is, the most disturbing site was some guy with a large punnet of plums for a face.

Converse of object

sell: Sainsbury's sells 40 million punnets of strawberries per year.

Adjective modifier

  • small: There is 100 times more folate in a small punnet of strawberries than there is in one apple.
  • plastic: Good examples are fruit and vegetables in plastic punnets, meat or fish in plastic trays and plastic carrier bags.
  • large: Sad tho it clearly is, the most disturbing site was some guy with a large punnet of plums for a face.

Noun used with modifier

  • fruit: And ears can be cut from felt or card, or you could use pieces of molded plastic from fruit punnet trays.
  • paper: To get away from these we worked with a packaging company to design our own reconstituted biodegradable paper pulp punnets.

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