drupe

• For this drupe (the technical name for fruit with stones, such as plums and cherries), life is the pits. —  Hungry Magazine
• The fruit is a drupe, globose, fleshy, and devoid of bloom. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852
• The female tree, after attaining the age of about thirty years, annually produces a large drupe or fruit-bunch, consisting of five or six nuts, each enveloped in an external husk, not dissimilar in form and colour to the coat of the common walnut, but of course much larger, and proportionably thicker. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852
• 114, I_), however, the carpels are more or less grown together; and in the cherry, peach, etc., there is but a single carpel giving rise to a single-seeded stone-fruit (drupe) (Fig. —  Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
• Another naturalist, Mr. G. Vidal, writes that in Southern India the P. medius feeds chiefly on the green drupe or nut of the Alexandrian laurel (_Calophyllum inophyllum_), the kernels of which contain a strong-smelling green oil on which the bats fatten amazingly; and then they in turn yield, when boiled down, an oil which is recommended as an excellent stimulative application for the hair. —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

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