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drupe

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Drupe \Drupe\, n. [F. drupe, L. drupa an overripe, wrinkled
   olive, fr. Gr. ?.] (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.

Source : WordNet®

drupe
     n : fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond;
         peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube [syn: {stone
         fruit}]
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