drupe

drupe  (drp)

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 drpa, druppa, overripe olive, from Greek drupp, olive, possibly alteration of drupeps, ripened on the tree : drs, dru-, tree; see deru- in Indo-European roots + peptein, pep-, to ripen; see pek^w- in Indo-European roots.]

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drupe

Noun

a fleshy fruit with a stone, such as the peach or cherry [Greek druppa olive]

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drupe  (drp)

A simple fruit derived from a single carpel. A drupe usually contains a single seed enclosed by a hardened endocarp, which often adheres closely to the seed within. In peaches, plums, cherries, and olives, a fleshy edible mesocarp surrounds the endocarp (the pit or stone). In the coconut, a fibrous mesocarp (the husk) surrounds the endocarp (the shell), while the white edible portion is the endosperm. Compare berrypome See more at simple fruit.

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