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drupes

drupes is the plural of drupe.

Meaning of drupe

Noun

drupe (plural drupes)

  1. 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

Questions about drupes

What is drupes the plural of?
Drupes is the plural of drupe.

Words near drupes in the dictionary

  1. drupelets
  2. drupelike
  3. drupellid
  4. drupellids
  5. drupels
  6. drupes
  7. drupetum
  8. druplet
  9. druplets
  10. drupose
  11. drury

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