0 a small square or rectangular box in which particular types of fruit are sold:
a punnet of strawberries/raspberries
Lower germination in the shadehouse may have resulted from different conditions between punnet and field soil storage.
Both studies measured changes in germination response as seedling emergence from soil punnets.
Apples are often re-graded according to each country's size standards and transferred into bags or punnets by the importing buyer before retail sale.
If we put the punnets into cellophane wrappers the strawberries deteriorate, and we are worse off than we were.
There is a small punnet of strawberries, and they can see almost every berry they are buying and know what they are getting.
This does, however, also enable anyone who wishes to help himself to a strawberry or two before the punnet reaches the shop.
For a single salesman sells perhaps tens of thousands of: punnets in two or three hours.
At present housewives are being tempted to buy strawberries in punnets.
