stone_fruit (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *stone fruit*:
NOUN	plant	stone fruit, drupe	fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed

English > *stone fruit*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube.
Synonym	drupe
Narrower	almond	oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree
	cherry	A red fruit with a single hard stone
	drupelet	A small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe
	elderberry	berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies
	jujube, Chinese date, Chinese jujube	dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees
	olive	one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish
	peach	downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh
	plum	Any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
Broader	fruit	The ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
Spanish	drupa
Catalan	drupa

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