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Definition of drupe in English: drupenoun druːpdrup 1Botany
A fleshy fruit with thin skin and a central stone containing the seed, e.g. a plum, cherry, almond, or olive. Example sentencesExamples - Hermit thrushes ate 14 pondberry fruits during six observation periods in 2000-2001, and 13 drupes during five observation periods in 2001-2002.
- This appears to have given rise to both single-seeded drupes and multi-seeded pyrenes early in evolution, and to berries later in evolution.
- That this tropical drupe can somehow be made to taste like smoky bacon without the greasy mess (and more ethical considerations of course) is uncanny.
- The fruit, a drupe with fleshy pulp and a high fat content, contains a glucoside which makes olives, especially unripe ones, very bitter.
- Fruiting plants are immediately recognizable by the unique bright blue color of their drupes, but sterile shrubs are very nondescript and easily overlooked.
2A small marine mollusc with a thick knobbly shell, found mainly in the Indo-Pacific. Genus Drupa, family Muricidae, class Gastropoda
Origin Mid 18th century: from Latin drupa 'overripe olive', from Greek druppa 'olive'. Rhymes bloop, cock-a-hoop, coop, croup, droop, dupe, goop, group, Guadeloupe, hoop, loop, poop, recoup, roup, scoop, sloop, snoop, soup, stoep, stoop, stoup, stupe, swoop, troop, troupe, whoop Definition of drupe in US English: drupenoundrupdro͞op Botany A fleshy fruit with thin skin and a central stone containing the seed, e.g., a plum, cherry, almond, or olive. Example sentencesExamples - Fruiting plants are immediately recognizable by the unique bright blue color of their drupes, but sterile shrubs are very nondescript and easily overlooked.
- That this tropical drupe can somehow be made to taste like smoky bacon without the greasy mess (and more ethical considerations of course) is uncanny.
- Hermit thrushes ate 14 pondberry fruits during six observation periods in 2000-2001, and 13 drupes during five observation periods in 2001-2002.
- The fruit, a drupe with fleshy pulp and a high fat content, contains a glucoside which makes olives, especially unripe ones, very bitter.
- This appears to have given rise to both single-seeded drupes and multi-seeded pyrenes early in evolution, and to berries later in evolution.
Origin Mid 18th century: from Latin drupa ‘overripe olive’, from Greek druppa ‘olive’. |