Drupelet
/ˈdruː.pəl.ɪt/noun
A small drupe; one of the tiny individual fruitlets that make up fruits like raspberries and blackberries.
Did you know?Botanically, raspberries and blackberries are not true berries at all: they’re aggregate fruits made of many drupelets, each one built like a tiny peach or cherry with a seed inside.
Etymological Timeline
Ancient Greek
Greek
drûpe
“an overripe olive or fruit”
Latin
Latin
drupa
“an olive or other stone fruit with a hard pit”
Late Latin
Latin
drupella
“a small drupe”
18th–19th Century
English
drupelet
“a small drupe; a tiny stone-fruit unit”
Modern English
English
drupelet
“one of the small individual fruitlets forming a compound fruit”
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