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drupe

[ droop ]

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noun

, Botany.

any fruit, as a peach, cherry, plum, etc., consisting of an outer skin, a usually pulpy and succulent middle layer, and a hard and woody inner shell usually enclosing a single seed.

drupe

/ druːˈpeɪʃəs; druːp /

an indehiscent fruit consisting of outer epicarp, fleshy or fibrous mesocarp, and stony endocarp enclosing a single seed, as in the peach, plum, and cherry

drupe

/ dro̅o̅p /

A simple fruit derived from a single carpel. A drupe usually contains a single seed enclosed by a hardened endocarp, which often adheres closely to the seed within. In peaches, plums, cherries, and olives, a fleshy edible mesocarp surrounds the endocarp (the pit or stone). In the coconut, a fibrous mesocarp (the husk) surrounds the endocarp (the shell), while the white edible portion is the endosperm.
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Origin of drupe¹

First recorded in 1745–55; from Latin drūpa, druppa “wrinkled olive, overripe olive,” from Greek drýppa “olive”

Origin of drupe¹

C18: from Latin druppa wrinkled overripe olive, from Greek: olive

It was while the manager was deciding which of three other young women to take that Mr. Drupe was stricken with apoplexy.

Areca, a genus of lofty palms with pinnated leaves, and a drupe-like fruit enclosed in a fibrous rind.

The Almond fruit is a drupe, like the peach, but the flesh is thin and hard and the pit is the Almond of commerce.

The fruit is a purple-black, globular, berry-like drupe, containing a stone with one or two seeds.

The fruit is a black, berry-like drupe containing (usually) eight little, seedlike stones.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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