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drupe

DEFINITIONS OF: drupe

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n fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube

Synonyms:
stone fruit
Types:
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almond
oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree
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
cherry
a red fruit with a single hard stone
elderberry
berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies
Chinese date, Chinese jujube, 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
drupelet
a small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe
blackberry
large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus
raspberry
red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries
Jordan almond
an almond covered with a sugar coating that is hard and flavored and colored
damson, damson plum
dark purple plum of the damson tree
greengage, greengage plum
sweet green or greenish-yellow variety of plum
beach plum
small dark purple fruit used especially in jams and pies
sloe
small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush
Victoria plum
a large red plum served as dessert
black cherry, sweet cherry
any of several fruits of cultivated cherry trees that have sweet flesh
Mexican black cherry, capulin
Mexican black cherry
sour cherry
acid cherries used for pies and preserves
black olive, ripe olive
olives picked ripe and cured in brine then dried or pickled or preserved canned or in oil
green olive
olives picked green and pickled in brine; infrequently stuffed with e.g. pimento
acinus
one of the small drupes making up an aggregate or multiple fruit like a blackberry
Type of:
fruit
the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
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