Drupes [noun]

Definition of Drupes:

small fruit

Synonyms of Drupes:

Kernel

Bean

Grain

Hip

Seed

Pome

Drupelet

Haw


Opposite/Antonyms of Drupes:

-


Sentence/Example of Drupes:

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.

Fruit, a globose, greenish-yellow drupe with numerous bony seeds.

Drupe, fleshy, inferior, oval with the borders turned upward containing a very hard and fibrous nut; seed long and sharp-pointed.

Fruit a globose drupe, crowned by the calyx, with 10 inconspicuous ribs.

Drupe globose, 1–2″ in diameter, covered by a fleshy envelope, formed by the receptacle.

The outer covering of each drupe is hard, the inner part tow-like; seed enveloped in a sort of fleshy white meat.