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drupe::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | stone fruit |
| Type of | fruit |
| Has types | cherry, chinese date, chinese jujube, drupelet, elderberry, jujube, olive, peach, almond, plum |
| Derivation | drupaceous, drupelet |
Examples of drupe
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The fruit is a drupe 2 or 3 centimeters in diameter and yellow or red in colour.
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This is only reasonable, since they're both members of the drupe family of fruits.
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The fruit is purple, often reduced to a subglobose drupe about 3 mm long.
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Pistachios are technically a drupe, a type of fruit with a single seed enclosed in a hard layer.
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The drupe develops first on the tree, and then the pedicel expands to become the cashew apple.
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In botanical terms it is not a nut, but a drupe.
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The true fruit of the cashew tree is a kidney or boxing-glove shaped drupe that grows at the end of the cashew apple.
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The fruit is a red drupe 4-6 mm in diameter.
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The areca nut is not a true nut but rather a drupe.
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- Fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube
- In botany, a drupe is a fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin; and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a shell (the pit or stone or pyrene) of hardened endocarp with a seed inside. These fruits develop from a single carpel, and mostly from flowers with superior ovaries. ...
- A stone fruit
- (drupes) A type of fruit that has a fleshy outside and an hard inner shell or stone. Many drupes are eaten. Some examples include almonds, blackberries and cherries.
- Peaches, apricots, and all plums are drupes, a juicy false fruit attached to a wooden pit in which an almond is enclosed.
- An indehiscent succulent fruit derived from a single carpel in which the pericarp consists of three layers
- A fruit with a hard, bony pit or stone and a soft outer skin and flesh (such as peaches)
- A fleshy, indehiscent fruit where the seed is surrounded by a hard endocarp (shell). Example 1 - A peach. Example 2 - A cherry.
- Fleshy or pulpy, indehiscent, superficially berry-like fruit in which 1 seed is encased in a stone (as in cherries), or more than 1 seed is encased in an equal number of free or variously fused stones (as in manzanitas). (see berry, nut, pome, stone) (e.g., Prunus emarginata fruit)
