单词 | drupe |
释义 | drupen. Botany. A stone-fruit; a fleshy or pulpy fruit enclosing a stone or nut having a kernel, as the olive, plum, and cherry. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > [noun] > stone-fruit or drupe stone-fruit?1523 drupe1753 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Drupe, among botanists, a species of pericarpium, consisting of a soft, fleshy, and succulent pulp, in the center of which there is a nucleus. 1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 41 From the bosom of each leaf is produced a single oval drupe. 1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 469 Jasmineæ..Their fruit is a capsule, a drupe or a berry. c1854 J. G. Whittier Lay Old Time 2 Sighing o'er his bitter fruit For Eden's drupes of gold. 1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iv. 313 The Drupe..is a superior, one-celled, one or two seeded, indehiscent fruit, having a fleshy or pulpy sarcocarp. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1753 |
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