Drupe Synonyms

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Synonyms for Drupe

stone-fruit
Any fruit with a soft fleshy exterior surrounding a hard pit or stone containing the seed.
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pome
(Obsolete, intransitive) To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.
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simple-fruit
A fruit that develops from a single ovary in a single flower. Simple fruits may be fleshy or dry. There are three main kinds of fleshy simple fruit: the berry, the drupe, and the pome. Dry simple fruits are classified as dehiscent (splitting open to free the seeds, as in the milkweed and pea pod) and indehiscent (enclosing the seeds until after the fruit has left the plant, as in grains, nuts, and winged fruits like the maple).
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berry
The definition of a berry is a small fruit that grows from a single ovary in a plant.
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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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