drupe Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube
    stone fruit.

WordNet

Drupe noun
Etymology
F. drupe, L. drupa an overripe, wrinkled olive, fr. Gr. .
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut.

Webster 1913