noun
punnet
Punnet (noun) means a small container used to hold and sell fruit, especially strawberries.
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A small container used to hold and sell fruit, especially strawberries.
"However we recommend, particularly in cooler climates, sowing tomato seeds into a seed tray or punnet and allowing the seedlings to grow before they are transplanted into the garden."
— Don Burke, The Complete Burke's Backyard: The Ultimate Book of Fact Sheets (2005)
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Etymology
Uncertain. First appears in the 1820s. Perhaps a diminutive of pun, a dialect variant of pound, the weight + -et. The suggestion that it is an eponym of Reginald Crundall Punnett (1875–1967), geneticist and grower of strawberries, is not chronologically possible. The suggestion it was an ancestor of his lacks evidence. Very likely to have originated from the french word bannette, wicker basket for bread proofing.
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"punnet" (noun) means a small container used to hold and sell fruit, especially strawberries.
