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Definition of Drupaceous
1. Adjective. Of or related to a drupe.
Definition of Drupaceous
1. a. Producing, or pertaining to, drupes; having the form of drupes; as, drupaceous trees or fruits.
Definition of Drupaceous
1. Adjective. of, relating to, resembling, or producing drupes ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Drupaceous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Drupaceous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Drupaceous
Literary usage of Drupaceous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Vegetable Histology by Charles William Ballard (1921)
"drupaceous FRUITS The drupaceous fruits are indehiscent, and their seeds are
separated from the mesocarp layer by a hard endocarp. ..."
2. Forest flora of British Burma by Sulpice Kurz (1877)
"... bracted involucre expanding afterwards; fruit drupaceous . . . Antiaris.
OO Filaments inflexed in bud. with scale-like sterile flowers ; juice milky ..."
3. Botany of the Northern and Middle States: Or, A Description of the Plants by Lewis Caleb Beck (1833)
"... indehiscent, usually drupaceous. Seed without albumen; radicle superior or
inferior, next the hilum ; cotyledons thick and fleshy or leafy. ..."
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