drupe
pronunciation
How to pronounce drupe in British English:
UK [dru:p]
How to pronounce drupe in American English:
US [drup]
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- Noun:
- fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube
Word Origin
- drupe (n.)
- 1753, from Modern Latin drupa "stone-fruit," from Latin drupa (oliva) "wrinkled olive," from Greek dryppa, short for drypepes "tree-ripened," from drys "tree" + pepon "ripe" (see pumpkin).
Example
- 1. Leaf blade abaxially pubescent ; drupe often glaucous .
- 2. Drupe and endocarp subglobose to globose .
- 3. There is edible drupe of this tree .
- 4. The fleshy , edible drupe of this tree .
- 5. Fruit usually a septicidal capsule or a drupe .