Definition of Drupels

1. drupel [n] - See also: drupel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drupels

drunkenness
drunkennesses
drunker
drunkest
drunklike
drunkness
drunkorexia
drunks
drupaceous
drupal
drupe
drupel
drupelet
drupelets
drupelike
drupels (current term)
drupes
druplet
druplets
druse
drused
drusen
drusen of the macula
drusen of the optic nerve head
druses
drusier
drusiest
drusy
druther
druthers

Literary usage of Drupels

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"When the fruit is apocarpous and consists of many achenes, drupels, or follicles, ... that of the Raspberry and the Blackberry is an eta;rio of drupels; ..."

2. Agricultural Botany: Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1921)
"The individual separate carpels in a single raspberry flower become small drupes or drupels, so that the whole fruit is'a compound one consisting of a ..."

3. Agricultural Botany, Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1913)
"The individual separate carpels in a. single raspberry flower become small drupes or drupels, so that the whole fruit is a compound one consisting of a ..."

4. Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle (1883)
"In Raspberry the ' receptacle' is conical and large; we pull off the mass of ' drupels' from it in eating the fruit, and throw away the ' hull,' or ..."

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