| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  dr p |
| NOUN: | A fleshy fruit, such as a peach, plum, or cherry, usually having a single hard stone that encloses a seed. Also called stone fruit. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin dr pa, druppa, overripe olive, from Greek drupp , olive, possibly alteration of drupep s, ripened on the tree : drs, dru-, tree; see deru- in Appendix I + peptein, pep-, to ripen; see pekw- in Appendix I.
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