DRUPE

drupe. Drupe, n. a pericarp or pulp, inclosing a stone as a peach

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Drupe (?), n. [[F. drupe, L. drupa an overripe, wrinkled olive, fr. Gr. �.]] (Bot.) A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut.