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    DRUPE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujubeplay

    Synonyms:

    drupe; stone fruit

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("drupe" is a kind of...):

    fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "drupe"):

    almond (oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree)

    peach (downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh)

    plum (any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit)

    cherry (a red fruit with a single hard stone)

    elderberry (berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies)

    Chinese date; Chinese jujube; jujube (dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees)

    olive (one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish)

    drupelet (a small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe)

    Derivation:

    drupaceous (of or related to a drupe)

    drupelet (a small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe)

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