> OED Entry Search > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > drupe > > drupe drup. Bot. ad. mod. Bot. L. drupa, a stone-fruit, L. drupa, > druppa (sc. oliva) over-ripe, wrinkled olive = Gr. druppa in same > sense; cf. Fr. drupe (1798 in Hatz.-Darm.). A stone-fruit; a fleshy > or pulpy fruit enclosing a stone or nut having a kernel, as the > olive, plum, and cherry. > > * 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp., Drupe, among botanists, a species of > pericarpium, consisting of a soft, fleshy, and succulent pulp, > in the center of which there is a nucleus. > > * 1791 W. Bartram Carolina 41 From the bosom of each leaf is > produced a single oval drupe. > > * 1828 Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. II. 469 Jasmineæ..Their fruit is a > capsule, a drupe or a berry; > > * C. 1854 Whittier Lay Old Time 2 Sighing o'er his bitter fruit > For Eden's drupes of gold. > > * 1870 Bentley Bot. 305 The Drupe is a superior, one-celled, one > or 2 seeded, indehiscent fruit, having a fleshy or pulpy > sarcocarp.