Meanings
plural drupes
- biologyA kind of fruit, with a fleshy exterior, formed from the exocarp and mesocarp, surrounding a hardened endocarp which protects the seed.
1 more example
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 serve as food for the Arctic birds.
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 202Synonyms: stone fruit
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA kind of fruit, with a fleshy exterior, formed from the exocarp and mesocarp, surrounding a hardened endocarp which protects the seed.
More synonyms by meaning
nounfleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond, peach, plum, cherry, elderberry, olive, jujube
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Ancient Greekδρύππᾱ
- Latindrūpa“wrinkled olive”
- Englishdrupe
Scientific Latin, from Latin drūpa (“wrinkled olive”), from Ancient Greek δρύππᾱ (drúppā).
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Catalan drupa
- drupafruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
Chinese Mandarin 核果
- 核果 (héguǒ)fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
Czech peckovice
- peckovicefruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
Danish stenfrugt
- stenfrugtfruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
Dutch steenvrucht
- steenvruchtfruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
Esperanto drupo
- drupofruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
Finnish luumarja
- luumarjafruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
French drupe
- drupefruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
German Steinfrucht, Steinobst
- Steinfruchtfruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
- Steinobstfruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
Greek δρύπη
- δρύπη (drýpi)fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
Hungarian csonthéjas gyümölcs
- csonthéjas gyümölcsfruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
Icelandic steinaldin, steinber
- steinaldinfruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
- steinberfruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
Irish eithneachán
- eithneachánfruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
Italian drupa, nocciolo
- drupafruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
- nocciolofruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
- frutto con nocciolofruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
Māori hua karihi, hua nganga
- hua karihifruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
- hua ngangafruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
Norwegian Bokmål steinfrukt, stenfrukt
- steinfruktfruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
- stenfruktfruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
Polish pestkowiec
- pestkowiecfruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
Portuguese drupa
- drupafruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
Romanian drupă
- drupăfruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
Russian костя́нка
- костя́нка (kostjánka)fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
Spanish drupa
- drupafruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
Swedish stenfrukt
- stenfruktfruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
Tagalog labtasbunga
- labtasbungafruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
Vietnamese quả hạch
- quả hạchfruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
Welsh drŵp, ffrwyth cnewyllog
- drŵpfruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
- ffrwyth cnewyllogfruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
- ffrwyth carregfruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
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drupe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drupe
“drupe.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drupe. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “drupe,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drupe.
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