stone fruit

stone fruit

n.1. See drupe.2. A fruit from a tree of the genus Prunus, such as a peach or cherry.

stone fruit

n (Botany) the nontechnical name for drupe

stone′ fruit`

n. a fruit with a stone or hard endocarp, as a peach or plum; drupe. [1515–25]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

stone fruit - fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujubedrupealmond - oval-shaped edible seed of the almond treepeach - downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish fleshplum - any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pitcherry - a red fruit with a single hard stoneelderberry - berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jelliesChinese date, Chinese jujube, jujube - dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn treesolive - one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relishfruit - the ripened reproductive body of a seed plantdrupelet - a small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe