Punnet

Quick meaning: Punnet is a noun meaning (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A small basket or receptacle for collecting and selling fruit, particularly strawberries.

Meaning

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A small basket or receptacle for collecting and selling fruit, particularly strawberries.

Example Sentences

Early this season, Ross Lill got together with a plastics firm to produce a flat tray to replace the commonly used punnet.

Most of the fruit for market is picked and sold in punnets, but for jam making buckets are used, similar to the raspberry bucket.

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.

‘But rather than spend £5 on a small punnet of exotic berries, a family would be better off buying regular and larger quantities of fresh fruit and vegetables from their local market.[…]’

Word Forms

• punnets

Synonyms for punnet

Depending on context, synonyms include chip, pottle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chip, pikelet, pottle, puttony, pitter, pippie.

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