Drupe

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A fleshy fruit, such as a peach, plum, or cherry, usually having a single hard stone that encloses a seed. Also called stone fruit.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A stone fruit.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In botany, a stone-fruit; a fruit in which the outer part of the pericarp becomes fleshy or softens like a berry, while the inner hardens like a nut, forming a stone with a kernel, as the plum, cherry, apricot, and peach.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    fruit   
    Hyponym
    almond    cherry    jujube    chinese jujube    elderberry    drupelet    peach    Chinese date    olive    plum   
    Form
    drupelet   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Guadeloupe    Hoop    Loop    Shoop    coop    coupe    croup    doupe    droop    dupe   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    raceme    removethe    mazer    triathlete