Definitions for drupe

drupe drupe

Spelling: [droop]
IPA: /drup/

Drupe is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in drupe (depru).

Definitions for drupe

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 drupe

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

Examples for drupe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for drupe
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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