drupe
/dɹuːp/
drupe noun: a kind of fruit, with a fleshy exterior, formed from the exocarp and mesocarp, surrounding a hardened endocarp which protects the seed.
Noun
drupe (plural drupes)
- A kind of fruit, with a fleshy exterior, formed from the exocarp and mesocarp, surrounding a hardened endocarp which protects the seed.
- Black crowberry. Empetrum nigrum. Crowberry Family. Fruit. — The black drupe is berrylike, globular, and incloses six to nine seedlike nutlets with a seed in each. The calyx is at the base and the stigma is at the apex. The drupes are solitary in the leaf axils. They are juicy, acid, edible, and...1905, Maude Gridley Peterson, How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants When Not in Flower by Means of Fruit and Leaf, Macmillan, page 202
- Synonyms:
- stone fruit
drupe meaning in Tamil, Tagalog and Vietnamese
drupe in Tamil
- உள் ஓட்டச்சதைக்கனி, உள்ளோட்டுச்சதையம், உள்ளோட்டுச் சதைக்கனி
drupe in Tagalog
- fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
- labtasbunga
drupe in Vietnamese
- fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
- quả hạch
Synonyms of drupe
Forms of drupe
| plural | drupes |
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Origin of drupe
Scientific Latin, from Latin drūpa (“wrinkled olive”), from Ancient Greek δρύππᾱ (drúppā).
Words formed from drupe
Words that rhyme with drupe
39 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- bloop
- cloop
- whoop
- coupe
- regroup
- roop
- saloop
- sloop
- snoop
- stoup
- alley oop
- boop
- gloop
- goop
- horse scoop
- jupe
- loupe
- roup
- troupe
- Tuesday Group
- astoop
- chat group
- croup
- dedupe
- fisherman's soup
- FOUP
- French onion soup
- ginger group
- L'Anse-au-Loup
- locker loop
- matrix group
- ploop
- pupe
- shoop
- stewp
- stoep
- stupe
- voop
- zoop
Questions about drupe
- What does drupe mean?
- Drupe means a kind of fruit, with a fleshy exterior, formed from the exocarp and mesocarp, surrounding a hardened endocarp which protects the seed.
- What is drupe in Tamil?
- Drupe in Tamil is உள் ஓட்டச்சதைக்கனி, உள்ளோட்டுச்சதையம், உள்ளோட்டுச் சதைக்கனி. See Drupe meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is drupe?
- Drupe is a noun.
- How do you pronounce drupe?
- Drupe is pronounced /dɹuːp/.
- What is the plural of drupe?
- The plural of drupe is drupes.
Words near drupe in the dictionary
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