drupe
English
editEtymology
editScientific Latin, from Latin drūpa (“wrinkled olive”), from Ancient Greek δρύππᾱ (drúppā).
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editNoun
editdrupe (plural drupes)
- (botany) a kind of fruit, with a fleshy exterior, formed from the exocarp and mesocarp, surrounding a hardened endocarp which protects the seed.
- Synonym: stone fruit
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 71:
- Her bare foot slipped, and the two panting youngsters tangled ignominiously among the branches, in a shower of drupes and leaves, clutching at each other [...].
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editfruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
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editFrench
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editdrupe f (plural drupes)
Further reading
edit- “drupe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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editItalian
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editdrupe f
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