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Drupe

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.

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Almond 76% connected

The fruit of the almond tree.

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Cherry 76% connected

A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone;

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Drupelet 76% connected

A small drupe, as one of the pulpy grains of the blackberry.

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Jujube 76% connected

The sweet and edible drupes (fruits) of several Mediterranean and African species of small trees, of the genus Zizyphus, especially the Z. jujuba, Z.…

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Olive 76% connected

A tree (Olea Europaea) with small oblong or elliptical leaves, axillary clusters of flowers, and oval, one-seeded drupes. The tree has been cultivate…

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Peach 76% connected

To accuse of crime; to inform against.

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Plum 76% connected

The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.

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Fruit 76% connected

Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; --…

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Drupaceous 74% connected

Producing, or pertaining to, drupes; having the form of drupes; as, drupaceous trees or fruits.

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Drupaceous 74% connected

Producing, or pertaining to, drupes; having the form of drupes; as, drupaceous trees or fruits.

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Drupelet 74% connected

A small drupe, as one of the pulpy grains of the blackberry.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Drupelet 74% connected

A small drupe, as one of the pulpy grains of the blackberry.

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