drupe

English

An annotated diagram of a drupe

Drupes of Prunus virginiana (chokecherry)

Etymology

Scientific Latin, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin drūpa (“wrinkled olive”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek δρύππᾱ (drúppā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɹuːp/
• Rhymes: -uːp
• Homophone: droop

Noun

drupe (plural drupes)

1. A stone fruit.
   • 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 [...].

Derived terms

• drupelet

Translations

stone fruit — see stone fruit

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

Noun

drupe f

1. plural of drupa

Anagrams

• prude