Definitions for drupes

drupes drupe

Spelling: [droop]
IPA: /drup/

Drupes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in drupes (deprsu).

Definitions for drupes

noun

  1. any fruit, as a peach, cherry, plum, etc., consisting of an outer skin, a usually pulpy and succulent middle layer, and a hard and woody inner shell usually enclosing a single seed.

Origin of drupes

1745-55; Latin drūpa, druppa overripe olive Greek drýppa olive

Examples for drupes

We will then take them first into our consideration, and begin by giving an account of what is the structure of a drupe.

The fruit is a drupe, that is, it consists of a fleshy husk enclosing a nut.

The drupe is in this species round, with red skin and juicy flesh of a distinctly acid character.

The flesh is dry and seeds solitary under the thick skin of the drupe.

It was while the manager was deciding which of three other young women to take that Mr. drupe was stricken with apoplexy.

The Almond fruit is a drupe, like the peach, but the flesh is thin and hard and the pit is the Almond of commerce.

Dr. Morris found Mrs. drupe already a widow when he arrived with the cashier.

drupe roundish, covered with bloom; the stone furrowed at its inner edge.

The drupe or stone-fruit, which consists of a hard stone surrounded by a fleshy covering, as the plum and the cherry.

The flowers are small and insignificant; and the fruit is a drupe.

Word Value for drupes
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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