drupaceous

American  

[droo-pey-shuhs] / druˈpeɪ ʃəs /

adjective

Botany.

1. resembling or relating to a drupe; consisting of drupes.

2. producing drupes.

   drupaceous trees.

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Etymology

Origin of drupaceous

First recorded in 1815–25; drupe + -aceous

Example Sentences

And, again, the malformation is not without significance in regard to the relationship between the drupaceous and the pomaceous subdivisions of Rosaceæ.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

The fruit is drupaceous, with a soft outer coat and a hard woody shell, greatly resembling that of a Cycad, both externally and internally.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 by Various

The fruit is drupaceous, and opens by two valves when ripe, displaying the beautiful reticulated scarlet arillus, which constitutes mace.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

These stones in such drupes, or drupaceous fruits, are called Pyren�, or Nucules, or simply Nutlets of the drupe.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

The fruit of the Hawthorn is a drupaceous pome, something between pome and drupe.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa