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DRUPELET

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("drupelet" is a kind of...):

drupe; stone fruit (fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "drupelet"):

blackberry (large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus)

raspberry (red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries)

acinus (one of the small drupes making up an aggregate or multiple fruit like a blackberry)

Derivation:

drupe (fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube)

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