drupe

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A stone fruit
{n} a pericarp or pulp, inclosing a stone as a peach
{i} fruit whose seed is contained in a pit or stone
The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc
fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e
fleshy fruit with a single stone or pit
Fruit with outer skin, inner fleshy layer and central woody 'stone'; derived from a single carpel, usually one-seeded, in which the exocarp is thin, the mesocarp is usually fleshy, and the endocarp stony (e g , peach or cherry)
Peaches and cherries are both drupes They have stony seed structure at the center of a fleshy fruit (also called stone fruit) Compare with pome fruit
Fleshy fruit with a pit or stone
A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel
Fleshy fruit, usually with hard walled seed
fleshy outer layer covering makes up a single-seeded indehiscent fruit with the seed enclosed in a stony endocarp (stone fruit); examples include cherry, plum, and peach
fruit usually fleshy, with a hard stone and a single seeds, a prune is a drupe
A fleshy fruit with a hard center usually containing a single seed such as a peach
fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e g almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube
Fleshy indehiscent (not regularly opening) fruit with the seed contained in a woody stone
almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube
A single-seeded, usually indehiscent fruit, such as the plum [16]
n (Gr dryppa, an overripe olive) a fleshy or pulpy fruit with the inner portion of the pericarp hard or stony and enclosing the seed; usually 1-locular and 1-seeded, sometimes more than 1-locular and more than 1-seeded
a fleshy, berry-like fruit containing one seed
A fleshy fruit with a hard nut or stone The fruit of the Pin Cherry (Prunus pensylvanica) provides a common North County example
A fleshy fruit containing a single seed in a hard "stone" (e g Peach)
Fruit in which the outer layer is a thin skin, the middle layer is thick and usually fleshy (though sometimes tough, as in the almond, or fibrous, as in the coconut), and the inner layer (the pit) is hard and stony. Within the pit is usually one seed. In aggregate fruits such as the raspberry and blackberry (which are not true berries), many small drupes are clumped together. Other representative drupes are the cherry, peach, mango, olive, and walnut
A fleshy fruit containing a single seed in a hard “stone” (e g , peach)
dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut
The fruit of certain plants of the laurel and rose families, having a thin exocarp, fleshy or leathery mesocarp, and a hard, stony endocarp Examples: avocadoes, almonds and peaches
A type of fruit that has a fleshy exterior with a large pit inside (examples, Japanese Zelkova as well as Cherry, Peach, Plum, and Apricot)
drupes
plural of drupe
drupe

    Turkish pronunciation

    drup

    Pronunciation

    /ˈdro͞op/ /ˈdruːp/

    Etymology

    [ 'drüp ] (noun.) circa 1753. New Latin drupa, from Latin, overripe olive, from Greek dryppa olive.
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