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Nubbin

noun
1.
A small nub (especially an undeveloped fruit or ear of corn).






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"Nubbin" Quotes from Famous Books



... other features, they are more or less rudimentary. Of a nose there is only what a chemist would call a trace. It seems hard to imagine that a dinky little nubbin like that, a dimple turned inside out, as it were, will ever develop into a regular nose, with a capacity for freckling in the summer and catching cold in the winter—a nose that you can sneeze through and blow with. There ...
— Cobb's Anatomy • Irvin S. Cobb



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