Drupe

[dru:p]

Definition

(noun.) fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube.

Inputed by Henrietta--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) 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.

Editor: Miles

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Stone-fruit.

Typed by Abe

Definition

n. a fleshy fruit containing a stone as the plum &c.—adj. Drupā′ceous producing or pertaining to drupes or stone-fruits.—n. Drup′el a little drupe.

Edited by Joanne