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- noun Plural form of
drupelet .
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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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He gives examples of those "certain peculiar words/like strengths or squinched"; he describes them as "many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps" which resemble the composition of the blackberry that is a clump of small drupelets.
Archive 2009-10-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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He gives examples of those "certain peculiar words/like strengths or squinched"; he describes them as "many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps" which resemble the composition of the blackberry that is a clump of small drupelets.
Great Regulars: The speaker then dramatically and bizarrely Rus Bowden 2009
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On top of each dollop, a couple of drupelets from a blackberry are placed, with drops of a blackberry sauce.
the best 2006
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On top of each dollop, a couple of drupelets from a blackberry are placed, with drops of a blackberry sauce.
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On top of each dollop, a couple of drupelets from a blackberry are placed, with drops of a blackberry sauce.
Augieland: 2006
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Instead, they are "aggregate fruits", agglomerations of individual berries known as drupelets.
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"Without population control, human beings would now be packed on this surface of this old planet like drupelets on a blackberry!
2 B R 0 2 B Kurt Vonnegut 1964
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