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DRUPE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube

Synonyms:

drupe; stone fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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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