drupelet

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Those little blackberry drupelets are just going to be popped and generally destroyed by filler honeydew.

From Slate • Aug. 25, 2014

Leaves firm or thick, shining above; fruit reddish, small, consisting of a few sour drupelets Swamp Dewberry, Rubus hispidus. 19a.

From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan

Calyx deeply 5-parted, persistent in fruit; 5 erect, short-lived petals, about the length of the sepals; stamens numerous; carpels numerous, inserted on a convex spongy receptacle, and ripening into drupelets.

From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Blanchan, Neltje

Pistils several or numerous, becoming drupelets in fruit.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Without population control, human beings would now be packed on this surface of this old planet like drupelets on a blackberry!

From 2 B R 0 2 B by Vonnegut, Kurt