punnet
Meaning
A small basket or receptacle for collecting and selling fruit, particularly strawberries.
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpʌnɪt/
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.
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