Blet Definition
blet
noun
Decay in overripe fruit.
Webster's New World
verb
To undergo bletting, a fermentation process in certain fruit beyond ripening.
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Origin of Blet
Emphasis and footnote in original, and though written as blessi, the French word for bletted is blette, and Lindley coined “blet”, suggesting an error in the text.
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Coined by John Lindley, in his Introduction to Botany (1835), p. 296:
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French blettir.
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