noun
- a small individual fruit that is part of a larger aggregate or compound fruit
Usage: botanical
Examples
- Each raspberry is composed of many tiny fruitlets clustered together.
- The blackberry’s surface is covered with small, juicy fruitlets.
- Botanists study how fruitlets develop within aggregate fruits.
- The mulberry consists of numerous fruitlets fused into one structure.
- Each fruitlet contains its own seed within the larger fruit.
- The texture of the strawberry comes from its many embedded fruitlets.