drupe

Definitions of drupe
  1. noun
    fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube
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    pêche
    downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh
    prune
    any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
    cerise
    a red fruit with a single hard stone
    baie de sureau
    berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies
    jujube
    dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees
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    fruit
    the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
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