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drupe

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /dɹuːp/
  • /dɹɪu̯p/
  • General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -uːp
  • homophone: droop (most accents)
  • CMU ARPABET: D R UW1 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A kind of fruit, with a fleshy exterior, formed from the exocarp and mesocarp, surrounding a hardened endocarp which protects the seed.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: stone fruit

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: fruit

2

noun

Meaning 2

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: stone fruit

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: fruit

Narrower terms: almond, peach, plum, cherry, elderberry, jujube, Chinese date, Chinese jujube, olive, drupelet

History

Etymology

Scientific Latin, from Latin drūpa (“wrinkled olive”), from Ancient Greek δρύππᾱ (drúppā).

Across languages

Translations

42 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Breton: drupenn — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Catalan: drupa — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Chinese Mandarin: 核果 (héguǒ) — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Czech: peckovice — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Danish: stenfrugt — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Dutch: steenvrucht — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Esperanto: drupo — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Finnish: luumarja — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • French: drupe — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Galician: baga — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Galician: drupa — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • German: Steinfrucht — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • German: Steinobst — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Greek: δρύπη (drýpi) — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Hungarian: csonthéjas gyümölcs — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Icelandic: steinaldin — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Icelandic: steinber — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Ingrian: toomi — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Irish: eithneachán — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Italian: drupa — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Italian: nocciolo — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Italian: frutto con nocciolo — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Macedonian: ја́ткесто о́вошје (játkesto óvošje) — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Māori: hua karihi — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Norwegian Bokmål: steinfrukt — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Norwegian Bokmål: stenfrukt — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: steinfrukt — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Polish: pestkowiec — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Portuguese: drupa — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Romanian: drupă — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Russian: костя́нка (kostjánka) — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Serbo-Croatian: кошту̀ница — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Serbo-Croatian: koštùnica — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Upper Sorbian: póčkojca — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Upper Sorbian: póčkaty płód — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Spanish: drupa — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Swedish: stenfrukt — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Tagalog: labtasbunga — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Vietnamese: quả hạch — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Welsh: drŵp — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Welsh: ffrwyth cnewyllog — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit
  • Welsh: ffrwyth carreg — fruit with soft flesh and a hard pit