drupe

drupe

 (dro͞op)

n.

A fleshy fruit, such as a peach, plum, or cherry, usually having a single hard stone that encloses a seed. Also called stone fruit.

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[Latin drūpa, druppa, overripe olive, from Greek druppā, olive, possibly alteration of drupepēs, ripened on the tree : drūs, dru-, tree; see deru- in Indo-European roots + peptein, pep-, to ripen; see pek^w- in Indo-European roots.]

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drupe

(druːp)

n

(Botany) an indehiscent fruit consisting of outer epicarp, fleshy or fibrous mesocarp, and stony endocarp enclosing a single seed, as in the peach, plum, and cherry

[C18: from Latin druppa wrinkled overripe olive, from Greek: olive]

drupaceous adj

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drupe

(drup)

n.

any fruit consisting of an outer skin, a usu. pulpy and succulent middle layer, and a hard and woody inner shell usu. enclosing a single seed, as a peach, cherry, or plum.

[1745–55; < Latin drūpa, druppa overripe olive < Greek drýppa olive]

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drupe

(dro͞op)

A fleshy fruit, such as a peach, usually having a single hard stone that encloses a seed.

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drupe

- A fleshy fruit with thin skin and a central stone (e.g. almonds, cherries, plums, olives), it comes from Latin drupa, "overripe olive," from Greek druppa, "olive."

See also related terms for plum.

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Thesaurus

Noun

1.

drupe - fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube stone fruit almond - oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree peach - downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh plum - any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit cherry - a red fruit with a single hard stone elderberry - berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies Chinese date, Chinese jujube, jujube - dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees olive - one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish fruit - the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant drupelet - a small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe

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Translations

Steinfrucht

drupe

drupa

drupe

[druːp] N → drupa f

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