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drupe

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An annotated diagram of a drupe
 
Drupes of Prunus virginiana (chokecherry)
 
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Scientific Latin, from Latin drūpa (“wrinkled olive”), from Ancient Greek δρύππᾱ (drúppā).

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drupe (plural drupes)

  1. (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
    • 1905, Maude Gridley Peterson, How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants When Not in Flower by Means of Fruit and Leaf‎[1], Macmillan, page 202:
      Black crowberry. Empetrum nigrum. Crowberry Family. Fruit. — The black drupe is berrylike, globular, and incloses six to nine seedlike nutlets with a seed in each. The calyx is at the base and the stigma is at the apex. The drupes are solitary in the leaf axils. They are juicy, acid, edible, and serve as food for the Arctic birds.

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin drūpa.

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drupe f (plural drupes)

  1. drupe

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Italian

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdru.pe/
  • Rhymes: -upe
  • Hyphenation: drù‧pe

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drupe f

  1. plural of drupa

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drupe

  1. Alternative form of droupen
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