drupe
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A soft fruit with one hard stone that holds the seed, like a cherry or olive
- noun
- /druːp/
- Specialized
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drupe
- A cherry is a drupe that has a juicy flesh and a single hard stone inside.
Examples
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The peach, classified as a drupe, has sweet, edible flesh surrounding its hard pit.
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Lychee is a drupe fruit.
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Not the drupe fruit.
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The almond tree itself produces a fruit called a drupe, with a pit similar to a peach or nectarine.
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Many people enjoy olives, which are also categorized as drupes due to their hard stones.
Synonyms
stone fruit
vsdrupe
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A soft juicy fruit with one hard seed inside, like a peach or cherry
is the scientific term for the same type of fruit
Surface Forms
Etymology
Drupe comes from the old Latin word drupa, which meant 'an olive' or 'a thick-skinned fruit'. Fruits like the olive, cherry and peach all have one hard 'stone' inside, and that 'stone' idea is why we still call them drupes today.