stone fruit

stone fruit

n.

See drupe.

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stone fruit

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) the nontechnical name for drupe

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

stone fruit - fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube drupe 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