Meaning of drupelet | Babel Free

Definitions

One of the small drupe-like subdivisions which compose the outer layer of certain fruit such as blackberries or raspberries.

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Examples

“It is best to pick⟳ the berries while all drupelets are of a consistent, dark red coloration.”

“The passengers on the chock-full boat were packed across the deck like⟳ drupelets.”

“Aggregated Fruits are close⟳ clusters of simple fruits all of the same flower. The raspberry and blackberry are good examples. In these, each grain is a drupelet or stone-fruit, like⟳ a cherry or peach on a very small scale.”

“The fruits of the genus Rubus (blackberry, raspberry) are aggregates of small drupes (drupelets) upon the receptacle of a single flower, each drupelet from a single pistil.”

“Each fertilized pistil/ovule will develop⟳ into a fleshy drupelet containing one seed (a pyrene). Erect and semi-erect blackberry cultivars produce⟳ fruit with relatively large pyrenes compared to those of trailing blackberries.”

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