drupe

Other forms of drupe

plural

drupes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about drupe

What does drupe mean?

drupe means "fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube".

How many syllables are in drupe?

drupe has 1 syllable: drupe. In IPA it is /ˈdɹup/.

What is another word for drupe?

Close synonyms include stone fruit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drupe a common word?

drupe is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with drupe?

1 word rhymes with drupe. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.