English-Thai Dictionary

drupe

N ผลไม้ ที่ มี เมล็ด แข็ง  pon-la-mai-ti-mi-ma-led-khaeng

 

drupelet

N ผลไม้่ ขนาดเล็ก ที่ มี เมล็ด แข็ง  pon-la-mai-lek-ti-mi-ma-led-khaeng

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DRUPE

n.[L., Gr, olives ready to fall, Gr. , a tree; to fall. ] In botany, a pulpy pericarp or fruit without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel; as the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, almond, olive, etc.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DRUPE

Drupe, n. Etym: [F. drupe, L. drupa an overripe, wrinkled olive, fr. Gr. (Bot. )

 

Defn: 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.

 

DRUPEL; DRUPELET

Drup "el, Drupe "let, n. Etym: [Dim. of Drupe. ] (Bot. )

 

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

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

drupe

drupe |dro͞op drup | ▶noun Botany a fleshy fruit with thin skin and a central stone containing the seed, e.g., a plum, cherry, almond, or olive. DERIVATIVES dru pa ceous |dro͞oˈpāSHəs |adjective ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: from Latin drupa ‘overripe olive, ’ from Greek druppa ‘olive. ’

 

drupel

drupel |ˈdruːp (ə )l | ▶noun Botany any of the small individual drupes forming a fleshy aggregate fruit such as a blackberry or raspberry. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from modern Latin drupella, diminutive of drupa ‘overripe olive ’ (see drupe ).

 

drupelet

drupe let |ˈdro͞oplit ˈdruplət | ▶noun Botany any of the small individual drupes forming a fleshy aggregate fruit such as a blackberry or raspberry. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from modern Latin drupella, diminutive of drupa ‘overripe olive ’ (see drupe ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

drupe

drupe |druːp | ▶noun 1 Botany a fleshy fruit with thin skin and a central stone containing the seed, e.g. a plum, cherry, almond, or olive. 2 a small marine mollusc with a thick knobbly shell, found mainly in the Indo-Pacific. ●Genus Drupa, family Muricidae, class Gastropoda. DERIVATIVES drupaceous adjective drupe ( sense 1 ) ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: from Latin drupa ‘overripe olive ’, from Greek druppa ‘olive ’.

 

drupel

drupel |ˈdruːp (ə )l | ▶noun Botany any of the small individual drupes forming a fleshy aggregate fruit such as a blackberry or raspberry. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from modern Latin drupella, diminutive of drupa ‘overripe olive ’ (see drupe ).

 

drupelet

drupelet |ˈdruːplɪt | ▶noun another term for drupel.