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/
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rhymes with -uːp
homophone: droop (most accents)
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Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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