Hypertext Webster Gateway: "drupe"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Drupe \Drupe\, n. [F. drupe, L. drupa an overripe, wrinkled
olive, fr. Gr. ?.] (Bot.)
A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp,
without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The
exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach,
etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the
cocoanut.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
drupe
n : fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond;
peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube [syn: {stone
fruit}]
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