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noun
- One of the small drupes making up an aggregate or multiple fruit like a blackberry.
- One of the small sacs or saclike dilations in a compound gland. .
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
- (n.) A grapestone.
- (n.) One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary