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drupe

/droop/US // drup //UK // (druːp) //

核果,核果类,核桃,核果园

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Botany.

    • : any fruit, as a peach, cherry, plum, etc., consisting of an outer skin, a usually pulpy and succulent middle layer, and a hard and woody inner shell usually enclosing a single seed.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Some of the most common drupes include peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots and cherries, but olives, mangoes and pecans also fall under this category.

  • It was while the manager was deciding which of three other young women to take that Mr. Drupe was stricken with apoplexy.

  • Areca, a genus of lofty palms with pinnated leaves, and a drupe-like fruit enclosed in a fibrous rind.

  • The Almond fruit is a drupe, like the peach, but the flesh is thin and hard and the pit is the Almond of commerce.

  • The fruit is a purple-black, globular, berry-like drupe, containing a stone with one or two seeds.

  • The fruit is a black, berry-like drupe containing (usually) eight little, seedlike stones.