n. 核果

[医] 核果

[ noun ]
fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube
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Drupe \Drupe\ (dr[udd]p), n. [F. drupe, L. drupa an overripe,
wrinkled olive, fr. Gr. dry`ppa.] (Bot.)
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.