🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

drupéola

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /druˈpe.o.la/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Drupelet/ˈdruː.pə.lət/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Cada drupéola de la frambuesa está llena de jugo."

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As noun
  1. 1

    A small, individual drupe that, together with others, makes up an aggregate fruit such as a raspberry or blackberry.

    "Each plump drupelet of the blackberry burst with sweet juice when pressed against the roof of my mouth."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived as a diminutive of the English word drupe, tracing back through Latin drupa from Greek drūppa meaning overripe olive. It entered botanical terminology in the 19th century to describe the small individual succulent drupes that aggregate to form composite fruits like blackberries and raspberries.

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