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DRUPE
drupe, stone fruit
(noun) fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
drupe (plural drupes)
A stone fruit.
Anagrams
• Dupre, Prude, duper, perdu, prude, pured, red up, red-up
Source: Wiktionary
Drupe, n. Etym: [F. drupe, L. drupa an overripe, wrinkled olive, fr. Gr. (Bot.)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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