NOUN | plant | drupe, stone fruit | fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed |
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Sounds | druw'p | |
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Rhymes | coop ... whoop: 27 rhymes with uwp... |
Meaning | fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube. | |
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Synonym | stone fruit | |
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 | |
Adjectives | drupaceous | of or related to a drupe |
Nouns | drupelet | a small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe |
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