meaning of drupe
1. 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.
2. fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e. g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube
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