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Drupe   /drup/   Listen
Drupe

noun
1.
Fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube.  Synonym: stone fruit.



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"Drupe" Quotes from Famous Books



... know what your peach is, that it is the fruit of a rosal exogen, and is of the nature of a true drupe, with its carpel solitary, and its style proceeding from the apex,—that its ovules are anatropal, and that its putamen separates sponte sua from the sacrocarp; to know, moreover, how many kinds of peaches and nectarines there are in the world, and how happy the Canadian ...
— Spare Hours • John Brown


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