Drupe Definition

dro͝op
noun
Any fruit with a soft, fleshy part (mesocarp) covered by a skinlike outer layer (exocarp, or epicarp) and surrounding an inner stone (endocarp) that contains the seed, as an apricot, cherry, plum, etc.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Drupe

Noun

Singular:
drupe
Plural:
drupes

Origin of Drupe

  • Latin drūpa, druppa overripe olive from Greek druppā olive possibly alteration of drupepēs ripened on the tree drūs dru- tree deru- in Indo-European roots peptein pep- to ripen pekw- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Scientific Latin, from Latin drūpa, from Ancient Greek δρύππᾱ (druppā).

    From Wiktionary

Drupe Sentence Examples

  • The coconut is actually the seed of the palm tree, but it is widely considered to be a drupe, a category of fruit.

  • The fruit is a kind of drupe, the fleshy husk of which is the dilated receptacular tube, while the two-valved stone represents the two carpels.

  • This causes some botanists to classify the coconut as a dry drupe.

  • To get specific, the fruit of the coconut palm is actually a drupe, which is a kind of fruit that has a fleshy outer layer and develops from the inside wall of a flower, called the ovary.

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