drupe
drupe — 名詞
- drupesingular
- drupesplural
1. A fruit whose single seed sits inside a hard inner shell, surrounded by soft fle
核果
外皮薄、中間有硬核的果實
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.
Kenji showed his class a cherry, explaining that it is a drupe with one hard stone.
Kenji 向班上同學展示一顆櫻桃，並解釋它是一種帶有一顆硬核的核果。
drupe with — fruit named + structural feature
Ana bit into a ripe peach and pointed to the hard pit inside the drupe.
Ana 咬了一口成熟的桃子，指向這顆核果內部的硬核。
The biology textbook listed the olive as a drupe, alongside the plum and the mango.
生物教科書將橄欖與李子、芒果並列為核果。
- 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.