Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small drupe, such as one of the many subdivisions of a raspberry or blackberry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
drupel .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One of the small
drupe -like subdivisions which compose the outer layer of certain fruits such asraspberries orblackberries .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe
Etymologies
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drupe + -let
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Examples
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Each incipient drupelet has its own stigma and good pollination requires the delivery of many grains of pollen to the flower so that all drupelets develop.
Pollination Wikipedia 2009
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"A drupelet, Mr. Wehling, is one of the little knobs, one of the little pulpy grains of a blackberry," said Dr. Hitz.
2 B R 0 2 B Kurt Vonnegut 1964
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Do you know what a drupelet is, Mr. Wehling? "said Hitz.
2 B R 0 2 B Kurt Vonnegut 1964
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