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2 definitions found 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: drupe n : fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube [syn: {stone fruit}]
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