drupe : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: drupe	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for drupe
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
drupe n fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube Synonym(s): drupe, stone fruit
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drupe \Drupe\, n. [F. drupe, L. drupa an overripe, wrinkled olive, fr. Gr. [?].] (Bot.) A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut.