stone fruit

See also: stonefruit and stone-fruit

English

Alternative forms

• stonefruit

Noun

stone fruit (plural stone fruits)

1. any fruit with a soft fleshy exterior surrounding a hard pit or stone containing the seed

   Synonym: drupe

   Hyponyms: apricot, cherry, nectarine, peach, plum, date, mango, olive, almond, coffee, pistachio, jujube

2. any plant in the genus Prunus

Usage notes

• References to "the stone fruits", or to stone fruits as a class are usually references to Prunus.

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 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

plant in the genus Prudus

• Finnish: tuomi (fi)

See also

• clingstone
• freestone