🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

핵과

Pronunciation / Transliteration: haekgwa

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Drupelet/ˈdruː.pə.lət/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"산딸기의 각 작은 핵과에는 과즙이 가득하다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
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 from the word 'drupe' (a fleshy fruit with a hard stone, such as a peach), combining it with the diminutive suffix '-let' to denote a small version. The term emerged in botanical terminology in the 19th century to accurately describe the individual small stone fruits that cluster together to form aggregate fruits like raspberries and blackberries.

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