Drupe

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  • noun. A fleshy fruit, such as a peach, plum, or cherry, usually having a single hard stone that encloses a seed.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In botany, a stone-fruit; a fruit in which the outer part of the pericarp becomes fleshy or softens like a berry, while the inner hardens like a nut, forming a stone with a kernel, as the plum, cherry, apricot, and peach.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A stone fruit.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube
  • Word Usage
    "From wikipedia: In botany, a drupe is a fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin; and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a shell (the pit or stone) of hardened endocarp with a seed inside."