17 Common Things You Never Knew The Name Of

2. The bumps on a raspberry are called ‘Drupelets’

The dictionary explains ‘drupelets’ as ‘any of the small individual drupes forming a fleshy aggregate fruit such as a blackberry or raspberry’. The word ‘drupe’ is used to describe any single simple fleshy fruit that contains a single seed. So a plum, a walnut and an olive are all drupes. A combination of drupes, like a raspberry, is called ‘drupelets’. 

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