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drupaceous

[ droo-pey-shuhs ]

adjective

, Botany.
  1. resembling or relating to a drupe; consisting of drupes.
  2. producing drupes:

    drupaceous trees.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of drupaceous1

First recorded in 1815–25; drupe + -aceous

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Example Sentences

There are such names as "galbulus," "amphisarca," and "inferior drupaceous pseudocarps," but these are probably disappearing.

Ovary 1-celled with two bilamellar parietal placent, or 2–4-celled by their union, becoming drupaceous or capsular.

The fruit of the Hawthorn is a drupaceous pome, something between pome and drupe.

In his eyes, the walnut and the coco-nut are not nuts, but 'drupaceous fruits,' just like the plum and the cherry.

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