Meaning of DRUPE
| Pronunciation: | | droop
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| | Definition: | | [n] fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube |
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| | Synonyms: | | stone fruit |
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| | See Also: | | almond, cherry, Chinese date, Chinese jujube, drupelet, elderberry, fruit, jujube, olive, peach, plum | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Drupe\, n. [F. drupe, L. drupa an overripe, wrinkled
olive, fr. Gr. ?.] (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.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | A succulent fruit, such as a cherry, formed from one carpel, having the seed(s) enclosed in an inner stony layer of the fruit wall. adj. drupaceous (which is often used to mean drupe-like but not strictly a drupe). Compare berry, pyrene. |
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