How to pronounce drupe

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What drupe means

noun

A fruit with soft flesh around one hard stone, like a cherry

In a sentence: A plum is a drupe because it has one hard pit in the middle.

Where it comes from: It comes from a Latin word for a wrinkled, overripe olive, which came from Greek.

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