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/
• 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

   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 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 [...].

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