drupelet

noun

1. One of the small drupe-like subdivisions which compose the outer layer of certain fruit such as blackberries or raspberries.

   “It is best to pick the berries while all drupelets are of a consistent, dark red coloration.”

   “The passengers on the chock-full boat were packed across the deck like drupelets.”

   “Aggregated Fruits are close clusters of simple fruits all of the same flower. The raspberry and blackberry are good examples. In these, each grain is a drupelet or stone-fruit, like a cherry or peach on a very small scale.”

   “The fruits of the genus Rubus (blackberry, raspberry) are aggregates of small drupes (drupelets) upon the receptacle of a single flower, each drupelet from a single pistil.”

   “Each fertilized pistil/ovule will develop into a fleshy drupelet containing one seed (a pyrene). Erect and semi-erect blackberry cultivars produce fruit with relatively large pyrenes compared to those of trailing blackberries.”