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fruit vs drupe

drupe vs fruit

fruit and drupe both are nouns.

fruit is a verb but drupe is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
fruit Yes No Yes No
drupe Yes No No No
As nouns, drupe is a hyponym of fruit; that is, drupe is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than fruit:
  • fruit: the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
  • drupe: fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond, peach, plum, cherry, elderberry, olive, jujube
Other hyponyms of fruit include edible fruit, juniper berry, May apple, achene, gourd, prairie gourd, blue fig, quandong, acorn, olive, hip, rose hip, rosehip, wild cherry, marasca, hagberry, chokecherry, rowanberry, buffalo nut, elk nut, oil nut, capitulum, ear, spike, fruitlet, seed, berry, aggregate fruit, multiple fruit, syncarp, stone fruit, false fruit, pome, pod, seedpod, pyxidium, pyxis, accessory fruit, pseudocarp, buckthorn berry, yellow berry, cubeb, schizocarp.
fruit (noun) drupe (noun)
an amount of a product fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond, peach, plum, cherry, elderberry, olive, jujube
the consequence of some effort or action
the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
fruit (verb) drupe (verb)
bear fruit
cause to bear fruit
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