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Meanings of drupe in English
Fleshy fruit with hard inner layer (endocarp or stone) surrounding the seed.
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Examples for "stone fruit"
Examples for "stone fruit"
1
Sharp acidity followed by lovely richness of stone fruit on the pallet.
2
The hail made a much bigger dent in the stone fruit crop.
3
The flat coastal land was ideal for growing feijoas, stone fruit and berries.
4
Lovely fresh acidity with stone fruit and a spicy follow through.
5
It should mean lots of good-flavoured stone fruit that store well.
Usage of drupe in English
1
The fruit is a drupe, containing a large blackish flatted seed.
2
Background: A complete and hardened endocarp is a typical trait of drupe fruits.
3
The fruit is a hard, woody drupe, containing small seeds.
4
Its leaves are shaped like spear-heads; the fruit is a kind of drupe, clothed in fleshy scales.
5
The fruit is a small fleshy drupe.
6
The whole tree is usually covered with a scaly tomentum, while the fruit is a black flattened drupe.
7
Laet calls the tree totocke, and mentions the drupe of the size of the human head, which contains the almonds.
8
These village rispetti bear the same relation to the canzoniere of Petrarch as the 'savage drupe' to the 'suave plum.'
9
The fruit is a drupe, having a downy outer coat, called the epicarp, which encloses the reticulated hard stony shell or endocarp.
10
She smiled and allowed the back of her left index finger stroke the curve of the drupe before plucking it from its place.
11
The Umirí berry (Humirium floribundum) is a black drupe similar in appearance to the Damascene plum, and not greatly unlike it in taste.
12
The almond fruit is a drupe, like the peach, but the flesh is thin and hard and the pit is the "almond" of commerce.
13
However, standing beside Macsen was Doblek, master of Drupe.
14
Column 4: Average Number of good Seeds per Drupe in all the Drupes during the two Seasons.
15
These drupes adhere together, forming round or conical caps, which will drop from the receptacle when over-ripe.
16
Still, to think that the monocotyledons evolved the familiar drupes, or stone fruits, on a parallel line to the dicotyledons is-amazing!
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