Drupe Synonyms

dro͝op
Fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. stone-fruit

Words Related to Drupe

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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.