putamina

Variant of putamen

noun pl. putamina

the hard stone, or endocarp, of certain fruits, as of the peach and the plum, or the shell of a nut

Origin: ModL < L, that which falls off in pruning, waste < putare, to prune, cleanse: see pure

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