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fruitlet

NOUN
  1. a diminutive fruit, especially one that is part of a multiple fruit

How To Use fruitlet In A Sentence

  • Recently, it has been shown that young Citrus fruitlets are able to synthesize ethylene in a manner that resembles the system II pathway of the climacteric fruits.
  • In other years with an early bloom date, many fruitlets reach 1-inch diameters by early May.
  • Thinning of fruitlets by hand is often impossible due to labour cost and availability.
  • Recently, apple fruitlets were also shown to be a rich source, and the kinins have been extracted from this tissue and concentrated.
  • The cells that will become next year's fruit buds are beginning to form when you can see this year's fruitlets, which are baby apples just starting to form.
  • She said their early apricot varieties were already forming fruitlets and the bees were ‘flat out’ on the later-blossoming varieties.
  • Formation of phloem and early xylem was directly related to fruitlet size.
  • Sawflies infest fruitlets and cause these to drop prematurely after which the pests pupate in the topsoil.
  • Do not worry about fruitlet size so much as applying the thinning spray when weather conditions are good, as discussed above.
  • Each of these fruitlets in turn is ‘protected’ by little white sepals.
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