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View synonyms for drupe
drupe
[ droop ]
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
/ druːp; druːˈpeɪʃəs /
noun
- 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.
- Compare berrySee more at simple fruit
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Derived Forms
- drupaceous, adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of drupe1
First recorded in 1745–55; from Latin drūpa, druppa “wrinkled olive, overripe olive,” from Greek drýppa “olive”
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Word History and Origins
Origin of drupe1
C18: from Latin druppa wrinkled overripe olive, from Greek: olive
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Example Sentences
It was while the manager was deciding which of three other young women to take that Mr. Drupe was stricken with apoplexy.
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Areca, a genus of lofty palms with pinnated leaves, and a drupe-like fruit enclosed in a fibrous rind.
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The Almond fruit is a drupe, like the peach, but the flesh is thin and hard and the pit is the Almond of commerce.
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The fruit is a purple-black, globular, berry-like drupe, containing a stone with one or two seeds.
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The fruit is a black, berry-like drupe containing (usually) eight little, seedlike stones.
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