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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fruit from a tree of the genus Prunus, such as a peach or cherry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a drupe; a fruit whose seeds are covered with a hard shell enveloped in a pulp, as the peach, cherry, and plum. See
drupe .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
fruit with asoft fleshy exterior surrounding a hardpit orstone containing theseed .
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
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