Definition of drupelet in English:

noun

• Any of the small individual drupes forming a fleshy aggregate fruit such as a blackberry or raspberry.

  Example sentences

  • ‘I knew, of course, that in technical botanical language, the blackberry is not a berry at all, but an aggregate fruit of numerous drupelets.’
  • ‘The crumbly berry is caused by the failure of some of the tiny drupelets, which make up the fruit, to develop.’
  • ‘Each pistil is able to produce a seed and a drupelet.’