punnet

Εννοια (English)

A small basket or receptacle for collecting and selling fruit, particularly strawberries.

Synonyms

basket

🧺

body

bodywork

car

🚗

crate

gondola

hamper

handbasket

holdall

skep

elevator car

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/ˈpʌnɪt/

Ετυμολογία (English)

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.