stone fruit


noun
  1. a fruit with a stone or hard endocarp, as a peach or plum; drupe.

Origin of stone fruit

1
First recorded in 1515–25

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British Dictionary definitions for stone fruit

stone fruit

noun
  1. the nontechnical name for drupe

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