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stone fruit

noun

  1. a fruit with a stone or hard endocarp, as a peach or plum; drupe.


stone fruit

noun

  1. the nontechnical name for drupe


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Word History and Origins

Origin of stone fruit1

First recorded in 1515–25

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Example Sentences

These fruits are the resulting hybrids from stone-fruit breeding.

Wash, dry and stone fruit; fill with a half marshmallow or blanched almond or chopped nuts and raisins and roll in sugar.

Stone fruit should be gathered in dry weather, and after the dew is off, for if gathered wet it loses colour and becomes mildewed.

A stone fruit; soft externally with a stone at the center, as the cherry and peach.

Many were in blossom, others were in fruit; the latter is an oblong little stone fruit of very bitter taste.

The inferior ovary becomes a stone-fruit that looks like a berry.

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