drupe
IPA/druːp/
KK[drˈup]IPA/druːp/
drupe — noun
- drupesingular
- drupesplural
1. A fruit whose single seed sits inside a hard inner shell, surrounded by soft fle
1.名詞C1
釋義
A fruit whose single seed sits inside a hard inner shell, surrounded by soft flesh and covered by a thin outer peel — examples include peaches, plums, cherries, and olives.
例句
Kenji showed his class a cherry, explaining that it is a drupe with one hard stone.
drupe with — fruit named + structural feature
Ana bit into a ripe peach and pointed to the hard pit inside the drupe.
The biology textbook listed the olive as a drupe, alongside the plum and the mango.
同義詞
- stone fruit
Common everyday term for drupes such as peaches, plums, and cherries; less precise botanically.
用法筆記
Frequently encountered in botany textbooks and food-science writing. The everyday term 'stone fruit' is more common in casual speech.
常見錯誤
❌A strawberry is a drupe.
✅A strawberry is not a drupe
💡its seeds are on the outside.' — Only fruits with a single hard central stone are drupes.