Thesaurus / drupe
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Drupe ovoid or oblong, with a bony and grooved or striate 1-celled and 1-seeded stone.
The flowers are small and insignificant; and the fruit is a drupe.
BOTANY FOR LADIESJANE LOUDON
One of its component simple fruits (drupe) in section, showing the pulp, stone, and contained seed; more enlarged.
THE ELEMENTS OF BOTANYASA GRAY
Drupe globular; the thin crustaceous putamen hollowed out like a cup on one side.
We will then take them first into our consideration, and begin by giving an account of what is the structure of a drupe.
The Drupe, or Stone-fruit; of which the cherry, plum, and peach (Fig. 375) are familiar examples.
THE ELEMENTS OF BOTANYASA GRAY
The dry drupe is like the Cherry drupe except that the flesh is much harder.
TREES OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATESAUSTIN C. APGAR
Drupe roundish, covered with bloom; the stone furrowed at its inner edge.
WOODLAND GLEANINGSCHARLES TILT
This tribe is distinguished by the fruit, which is what botanists call a drupe, that is, a stone fruit.
BOTANY FOR LADIESJANE LOUDON
Fertile flowers single under each scale; nutlets naked, waxy-coated or drupe like.
WORDS RELATED TO DRUPE
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.