noun
- Small or immature fruits, especially the individual drupelets that make up an aggregate fruit like a raspberry or blackberry.
- Young or developing fruits on a plant before they reach full maturity.
Usage: Plural form; commonly used in botany and horticulture.
Usage: Used in gardening and agriculture contexts.
Examples
- The raspberry is composed of many tiny fruitlets clustered together.
- Gardeners often thin out fruitlets in early summer to encourage larger fruit development.
- Each fruitlet on the blackberry plant develops from a separate flower.
- The fruitlets began to ripen and turn from green to red.
- Proper spacing helps prevent competition among fruitlets on the branch.