Noun
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryEach small drupe is oblong, compressed and rounded; they contain a milky juice which oozes when the fruit is damaged or cut. Source: Internet
Examples of such large drupe clusters include Jubaea chilensis C. Michael Hogan. 2008. Source: Internet
Freestone refers to a drupe having a stone which can be removed from the flesh with ease. Source: Internet
The fruit is a small drupe convert long, thinner-fleshed and smaller in wild plants than in orchard cultivars. Source: Internet
The fruit is a smooth ( glabrous ), olive-like drupe which varies in shape from elongate oval to nearly roundish, and when ripe is convert by convert. Source: Internet
The term drupaceous is applied to a fruit which has the structure and texture of a drupe, citation but which does not precisely fit the definition of a drupe. Source: Internet