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ALL meanings of drupe

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  • noun drupe any fruit, as a peach, cherry, plum, etc., consisting of an outer skin, a usually pulpy and succulent middle layer, and a hard and woody inner shell usually enclosing a single seed. 1
  • noun drupe A fleshy fruit with thin skin and a central stone containing the seed, e.g., a plum, cherry, almond, or olive. 1
  • noun drupe an indehiscent fruit consisting of outer epicarp, fleshy or fibrous mesocarp, and stony endocarp enclosing a single seed, as in the peach, plum, and cherry 0
  • noun drupe any fruit with a soft, fleshy part (mesocarp) covered by a skinlike outer layer (exocarp, or epicarp) and surrounding an inner stone (endocarp) that contains the seed, as an apricot, cherry, plum, etc. 0
  • noun drupe A stone fruit. 0
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