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Ah, you've been making incorrect asptsuwmptions about tsuwm, AnnaS. You see, he had a great, big, drupacious Dave Barry (read: Berry) that dwelled inside, dwelling to ectocarpaciously escape once Dave retired.
So, DaveBerry's gone and tsuwm has come to the rescue...the real fruwty tsuwm.
Edit: Have searched for a while, and the only thing I've found about multiple drupes is "aggregate of druplets." I'm positive I've seen an adjective, tsuwm, that names such aggregates on some botanical glossary or some glossary on the Web, perhaps even your own.
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Owlbow, fear not; whatever you post, there is surely something sillier already done by somebody here!
--- what is the word for an aggregate cluster of fruit derived from a single flower, such as the raspberry or blackberry? Speaking of fear and trembling: surely it can't be this simple, but what about bunch, as in grapes?
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Bunch wouldn't work for an aggregate berry, such as the raspberry and blackberry, because grapes are separate, individually defined drupes, and the aggregates are multi-drupes (or 'druplets' as I just learned while researching this) that aren't separate from each other.
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Ah. Thanks. That's what I was afraid of. I've never had the opportunity to observe grapes as they develop, as I have berries. Back to the Google board...
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I tried OneLook's reverse dictionary feature on this, and it worked!!
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Got it! I had just been going to post that you probably hadn't meant raceme, and I see now that I was right.
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what is the word for an aggregate cluster of fruit derived from a single flower, such as the raspberry or blackberry?
YUMMY!
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A little more about raspberries and blackberries:
An online dictionary identifies such fruits with aggregated drupelets as being 'bramble fruits,' a descriptive name.
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bramble fruitsDoes this speak to the structure of the fruit itself or to the nature of the plant on which the fruit grows? AHD defines bramble as "[a] prickly shrub …" http://www.bartleby.com/61/24/B0452400.html
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