About The Word Drupe
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Drupe
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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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