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DRUPE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does drupe mean?
• DRUPE (noun)
The noun DRUPE has 1 sense:
1. fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube
Familiarity information: DRUPE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
drupe; stone fruit
Hypernyms ("drupe" is a kind of...):
fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "drupe"):
almond (oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree)
peach (downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh)
plum (any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit)
cherry (a red fruit with a single hard stone)
elderberry (berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies)
Chinese date; Chinese jujube; jujube (dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees)
olive (one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish)
drupelet (a small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe)
Derivation:
drupaceous (of or related to a drupe)
drupelet (a small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe)
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