stone fruit

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsdrupe

   Broaderfruit

   Narroweralmondpeachplumcherryelderberryjujubeolivedrupelet

Questions about stone fruit

What does stone fruit mean?

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

What is another word for stone fruit?

Close synonyms include drupe. 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 stone fruit a common word?

stone fruit 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.