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drupelet::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | drupe, stone fruit |
| Has types | acinus, blackberry, raspberry |
| Derivation | drupe |
Examples of drupelet
drupelet
If even a single drupelet is still red, chances are the entire berry will be inedibly sour.
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Note the multiple pistils, each of which will produce a drupelet.
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Each small unit is called a drupelet.
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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.
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- A small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe
- In botany, a drupe is a fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin; and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a shell (the pit or stone or pyrene) of hardened endocarp with a seed inside. These fruits develop from a single carpel, and mostly from flowers with superior ovaries. ...
- The small drupe-like subdivisions which compose the outer layer of certain fruits such as raspberries or blackberries
- One drupe of a fruit with multiple drupes, as in blackberries.
