noun
- a small drupe that is part of an aggregate fruit
Usage: botanical
Examples
- Each raspberry is made up of many tiny drupelets clustered together.
- The blackberry’s drupelets contain individual seeds.
- When you eat a raspberry, you’re consuming dozens of drupelets.
- The botanist examined the drupelets under a microscope.
- Each drupelet in the aggregate fruit develops from a separate flower.
- The drupelets give raspberries their characteristic bumpy texture.