Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Resembling, relating to, or consisting of a drupe: drupaceous fruit.
- adj. Producing drupes: a drupaceous tree.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Producing drupes: as, drupaceous trees.
- Resembling or relating to a drupe; consisting of drupes. See drupe.
Wiktionary
- adj. of, relating to, resembling, or producing drupes
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Producing, or pertaining to, drupes; having the form of drupes.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or related to a drupe
Examples
“August mock polaroid drupaceous upcoming lacy days assortment flip flop heritage”
“Today, American chefs, in their unending hunt for novel match-ups of flavor and texture, have lately been deploying the date in a kaleidoscopic range of recipes, serving an unavowed drupaceous minicuisine to an unsuspecting foodie public.”
The Wall Street Journal: Hot Dates Make It on the Restaurant Scene
“I am drinking the dregs of this morning's Antigua coffee to wash down the seeds of this delicious drupaceous fruit.”
“There is a small drupaceous fruit found here and at Beesa, the Singfo name of which is Let-tan-shee; it is the produce of a large tree probably the fruit of a Chrysobalanus, testibus stylo”
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
“And, again, the malformation is not without significance in regard to the relationship between the drupaceous and the pomaceous subdivisions of _Rosaceæ_.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
“Mr Hodgson shot a kangaroo; Mr Roper brought in eight cockatoos; Mr Phillips found a flesh-coloured drupaceous fruit; Mr Calvert shot a native companion -- not one of the aborigines, but a bird so called; and thus the book goes on, every thing put down with the dry brevity of a seaman's log.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.
“The fruit is drupaceous, and opens by two valves when ripe, displaying the beautiful reticulated scarlet arillus, which constitutes mace.”
“The fruit is drupaceous, with a soft outer coat and a hard woody shell, greatly resembling that of a Cycad, both externally and internally.”
“Smelfungus, indeed, would insist upon it that the coco-nut is not a nut at all, and would thrill us with the delightful information, innocently conveyed in that delicious dialect of which he is so great a master, that it is really 'a drupaceous fruit with a fibrous mesocarp. ”
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
“Mr. Phillips found a flesh-coloured drupaceous oblong fruit, about half an inch long, with a very glutinous pericarp, containing a slightly compressed rough stone: in taste it resembled the fruit of Loranthus, and the birds, particularly the coekatoos, appeared very fond of it.”
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