🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

drupéola

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /druˈpe.o.la/

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

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

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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 diminutive of the English noun 'drupe', which comes from Latin 'drupa' meaning an overripe olive, originating from Greek 'drouppa'. The suffix '-let' was added in botanical contexts during the 19th century to denote a small, individual drupe.

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