drupe

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/
• Rhymes: -uːp
• Homophone: droop

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.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 71:

     Her bare foot slipped, and the two panting youngsters tangled ignominiously among the branches, in a shower of drupes and leaves, clutching at each other [...].

   Synonym: stone fruit

Hypernyms

• fruit

Coordinate terms

• berry
• hesperidium
• pome

 

Derived terms

• drupelet

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 (drýpi) Hungarian: csonthéjas gyümölcs Icelandic: steinaldin (is) n, steinber n 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

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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

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Italian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

drupe f

1. plural of drupa

Anagrams

• prude