Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fleshy fruit, such as a peach, plum, or cherry, usually having a single hard stone that encloses a seed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a stone-fruit; a fruit in which the outer part of the pericarp becomes fleshy or softens like a berry, while the inner hardens like a nut, forming a stone with a kernel, as the plum, cherry, apricot, and peach.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
stone fruit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube
Etymologies
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Examples
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From wikipedia: In botany, a drupe is a fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin; and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a shell (the pit or stone) of hardened endocarp with a seed inside.
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It is, however, not the product "turpentine" that is most esteemed by the natives, but the fruit of the tree, a kind of drupe disposed in clusters.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 Various
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Its leaves are shaped like spear-heads; the fruit is a kind of drupe, clothed in fleshy scales.
The Castaways Mayne Reid 1850
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Leaving aside the invidious choices to be made between hesperidia, cucurbitaceae, and drupes — I am a drupe man — and, thence, between apricots, nectarines, mangoes, plums, and peaches, I find there is simply no adequate counter-argument.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Leaving aside the invidious choices to be made between hesperidia, cucurbitaceae, and drupes — I am a drupe man — and, thence, between apricots, nectarines, mangoes, plums, and peaches, I find there is simply no adequate counter-argument.
The Peach 2009
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She pricked her hand on the rusty daglet, and I saw a drupe of blood, red as a cherry, swell on her pall.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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She pricked her hand on the rusty daglet, and I saw a drupe of blood, red as a cherry, swell on her pall.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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She pricked her hand on the rusty daglet, and I saw a drupe of blood, red as a cherry, swell on her pall.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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Yesterday, I woke in the middle of a dream about the cherry liqueur described by the protagonist Framboise in the book Five Quarters of the Orange *: eventually, the alcohol seeps through the drupe to penetrate the stone, drawing out the scent of almonds, she explains.
Slow Sweet Sips 2005
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Yesterday, I woke in the middle of a dream about the cherry liqueur described by the protagonist Framboise in the book Five Quarters of the Orange *: eventually, the alcohol seeps through the drupe to penetrate the stone, drawing out the scent of almonds, she explains.
Archive 2005-06-01 2005
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An olive is a drupe, or stone fruit, with a fleshy exterior surrounding a single pit.
kalli commented on the word drupe
A pistachio is in fact a drupe and not a true nut. Fascinating, yes?
November 2, 2007
dontcry commented on the word drupe
Yes!
February 28, 2009