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Drupe

Drupe Meaning & Definition
Drupe Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Drupe?

[n] fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube

Synonyms | Synonyms for Drupe: stone fruit

Related Terms | Find terms related to Drupe:

See Also | almond | cherry | Chinese date | Chinese jujube | drupelet | elderberry | fruit | jujube | olive | peach | plum

Drupe In Webster's Dictionary

\Drupe\, n. [F. drupe, L. drupa an overripe, wrinkled olive, fr. Gr. ?.] (Bot.) A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut.

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