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Definition of Drupe
1. Noun. Fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube.
Exact synonyms: Stone Fruit
Specialized synonyms: Almond, Peach, Plum, Cherry, Elderberry, Chinese Date, Chinese Jujube, Jujube, Olive, Drupelet
Generic synonyms: Fruit
Derivative terms: Drupaceous, Drupelet
Specialized synonyms: Almond, Peach, Plum, Cherry, Elderberry, Chinese Date, Chinese Jujube, Jujube, Olive, Drupelet
Generic synonyms: Fruit
Derivative terms: Drupaceous, Drupelet
Definition of Drupe
1. n. 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.
Definition of Drupe
1. Noun. A stone fruit. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Drupe
1. a fleshy fruit [n -S]
Medical Definition of Drupe
1. A succulent fruit, such as a cherry, formed from one carpel, having the seed enclosed in an inner stony layer of the fruit wall. Adj. Drupaceous (which is often used to mean drupe-like but not strictly a drupe). Compare: berry, pyrene. (09 Oct 1997)
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