drupe

English

An annotated diagram of a drupe

Drupes of Prunus virginiana (chokecherry)

Etymology

Scientific Latin, from Latin drūpa (“wrinkled olive”), from Ancient Greek δρύππᾱ (drúppā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɹuːp/, /dɹɪu̯p/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -uːp
• Homophone: droop (most accents)

Noun

drupe (plural drupes)

1. (botany) a kind of fruit, with a fleshy exterior, formed from the exocarp and mesocarp, surrounding a hardened endocarp which protects the seed.

   Synonym: stone fruit

   • 1905, Maude Gridley Peterson, How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants When Not in Flower by Means of Fruit and Leaf‎^[1], Macmillan, page 202:

     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.

Hypernyms

• fruit

Coordinate terms

• berry
• hesperidium
• pome

Derived terms

• drupaceous
• drupal
• drupelet
• drupelike
• polydrupe

Translations

fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Breton: drupenn f
• Catalan: drupa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 核果 (zh) (héguǒ)

• Czech: peckovice f
• Danish: stenfrugt (da) c
• Dutch: steenvrucht (nl) f
• Esperanto: drupo
• Finnish: luumarja (fi)
• French: drupe (fr) f
• Galician: baga (gl) f, drupa f
• German: Steinfrucht (de) f, Steinobst (de) n
• Greek: δρύπη (el) (drýpi)
• Hungarian: csonthéjas gyümölcs
• Icelandic: steinaldin (is) n, steinber n
• Ingrian: toomi
• Irish: eithneachán m
• Italian: drupa (it) f, nocciolo (it) m, frutto con nocciolo m
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: ја́ткесто о́вошје n (játkesto óvošje)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: steinfrukt m or f, stenfrukt m or f

  Nynorsk: steinfrukt f

• Polish: pestkowiec m anim
• Portuguese: drupa (pt) f
• Romanian: drupă (ro) f
• Russian: костя́нка (ru) f (kostjánka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кошту̀ница f

  Roman: koštùnica (sh)

• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: póčkojca f, póčkaty płód m

• Spanish: drupa (es) f
• Swedish: stenfrukt (sv) c
• Tagalog: labtasbunga
• Vietnamese: quả hạch
• Welsh: drŵp (cy) m, ffrwyth cnewyllog m, ffrwyth carreg m

Anagrams

• Dupre, Prude, duper, perdu, prude, pured, red up, red-up

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin drūpa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʁyp/

• Audio:

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Noun

drupe f (plural drupes)

1. drupe

Further reading

• “drupe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• duper, perdu

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdru.pe/
• Rhymes: -upe
• Hyphenation: drù‧pe

Noun

drupe f

1. plural of drupa

Anagrams

• prude

Middle English

Verb

drupe

1. Alternative form of droupen