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drupelet

noun as in berry

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Each mulberry, raspberry, or blackberry is a drupelet, or cluster of tiny drupes, each of which contains a single seed.

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You’re supposed to wait for the classic signs of readiness, when the musty crimson drupelets fall willingly into your hand, leaving behind a pale naked stump.

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Late season raspberries may develop white drupelets due to sun scald and blueberries may not reach their ideal size because of a lack of water.

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Pistils several or numerous, becoming drupelets in fruit.

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The stuff also makes quick work of disassembling blackberries into individual drupelets and shattering dollops of oil into tiny shards that thaw in minutes.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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