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drupe Bot.|druːp|
[ad. mod. Bot. L. drūpa, a stone-fruit, L. drūpa, druppa (sc. olīva) over-ripe, wrinkled olive = Gr. δρύππᾱ in same sense; cf. F. drupe (1798 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
A stone-fruit; a fleshy or pulpy fruit enclosing a stone or nut having a kernel, as the olive, plum, and cherry.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Drupe, among botanists, a species of pericarpium, consisting of a soft, fleshy, and succulent pulp, in the center of which there is a nucleus. 1791W. Bartram Carolina 41 From the bosom of each leaf is produced a single oval drupe. 1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. II. 469 Jasmineæ..Their fruit is a capsule, a drupe or a berry. c1854Whittier Lay Old Time 2 Sighing o'er his bitter fruit For Eden's drupes of gold. 1870Bentley Bot. 305 The Drupe is a superior, one-celled, one or 2 seeded, indehiscent fruit, having a fleshy or pulpy sarcocarp. |