{ } n. [ Dim. of Drupe. ] (Bot.) A small drupe, as one of the pulpy grains of the blackberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. drupe, L. drupa an overripe, wrinkled olive, fr. Gr. dry`ppa. ] (Bot.) A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut.