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Example sentences for "drupe"

Lexicographically close words:
drunkenly; drunkenness; drunker; drunks; drupaceous; drupes; drus; drusy; druther; druv
  1. One form of the drupe is called Gauri shanka, and is worn in a golden receptacle by Dikshitar Brahmans at Chidambaram, and by some Pandarams who are managers of matams (religious institutions).

  2. Its drupe was used in decoration, its leaves were braided into mats, hats, bags, etc.

  3. Hala fruit bunch and drupe with a "lei" 170 XIX.

  4. A genus of trees with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening.

  5. The shell of a nut; the stone of a drupe fruit.

  6. The berry is composed of a compact and adhering cluster of drupes, each drupe about one thirty-second of an inch long.

  7. The fruit of black gum is a drupe about one and a half inches long; inside of it is a rough, oval pit; the pulp is acrid until mellowed by frost.

  8. It is a drupe about the size of a half-grown grape.

  9. The fruit is a blue drupe about a third of an inch long.

  10. The black fruit is a drupe nearly an inch long.

  11. Defn: A genus of trees with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening.

  12. A tropical tree (Hernandia sonora), which bears a drupe that rattles when dry in the inflated calyx.

  13. Defn: The shell of a nut; the stone of a drupe fruit.

  14. Well,” said Carlos, “the boiled beef wasn’t so damned bad.

  15. Drupe superior, with a hard, bony pit, containing a thicker, softer substance which envelopes a seed of like consistency.

  16. Fruit a fleshy drupe resembling somewhat a small apple, the pit very hard, semilunar, flattened, with 4 compartments and as many solitary seeds.

  17. Drupe globose, with hard, slightly furrowed putamen of 6 locules and solitary seeds.

  18. The outer covering of each drupe is hard, the inner part tow-like; seed enveloped in a sort of fleshy white meat.

  19. Fruit, a drupe of a purple color, the size of a filbert, kidney-shaped, the albumen horny.

  20. Drupe globose, often oval, large, smooth, with thick, woody shell of a single compartment containing seeds as described above.

  21. Drupe berry-like, with 2--4 separate seed-like nutlets.

  22. Fruit a berried drupe with 10 small seed-like nutlets.

  23. Drupe globular, the mark of the stigma near the base, the ovary in its growth after flowering being strongly incurved, so that the (wrinkled and grooved) laterally flattened stone takes the form of a large crescent or ring.

  24. Drupe small, with a 2-celled and 2-seeded stone.

  25. Drupe oblong, with thin flesh and a bony 2-celled putamen.

  26. Drupe ovoid or oblong, with a bony and grooved or striate 1-celled and 1-seeded stone.

  27. Corolla-lobes short; stamens as many as its lobes; drupe almost inclosed in the enlarged disk of the flower; branches unarmed.

  28. Fruit of 2-valved carpels, a samara, drupe or capsule.

  29. Corolla-lobes elongated; stamens twice as many as its lobes; drupe nearly naked; branchlets armed.

  30. Fruit a drupe or berry; embryo cylindric in a cavity of the hard albumen near the circumference of the seed.

  31. Fruit an ovoid black drupe crowned with the remnants of the persistent style and supported on the persistent base of the disk; flesh thin and fleshy; walls of the stone thick and crustaceous.

  32. Fruit a small bluish drupe on a thick reddish stem.

  33. Fruit in size from pea to peach, a rounded drupe with one stony-coated seed.

  34. The dry drupe is like the Cherry drupe except that the flesh is much harder.

  35. Fruit a black cherry-like drupe with a 2- to 3-celled nut.

  36. Fruit a berry or drupe with 1 to 5 bony stones, tipped with the 5 persistent calyx-teeth; ripe in autumn.

  37. Fruit a plum-like drupe with a single bony stone; plant sometimes thorny 36.

  38. Fruit a small, bright red drupe with a single 2-seeded nut.

  39. Drupe globular, obovoid to ovoid, of many colors (black, white, etc.

  40. Then she turned to the form of the man lying prostrate on the floor, seized a pillow from the lounge, and motioned to Mrs. Drupe to raise his head while she laid it beneath.

  41. I am to live with Mrs. Drupe as a companion, and to look out for her affairs and collect her rents.

  42. Miss Wakefield rushed past Mrs. Drupe into the apartment, and turned the teleseme to the word "manager," and then pressed the button three times in quick succession.

  43. There were no children, and the Drupes kept no servant, but depended on the housekeeper to send them a maid when they required one, so that Mrs. Drupe found herself alone with her prostrate husband.

  44. She was so much perplexed by the desperate state of her own affairs that she even neglected to attend Mr. Drupe's funeral, but she hoped that Mrs. Drupe would not take it unkindly.

  45. It was while the manager was deciding which of three other young women to take that Mr. Drupe was stricken with apoplexy.

  46. Morris found Mrs. Drupe already a widow when he arrived with the cashier.

  47. He stood out a while for Miss Wakefield, whom he liked; but when the influential Mrs. Drupe wrote to him that the cashier at the desk in the restaurant was not a well-behaved girl, he knew that it was time to look out for another.

  48. It was not possible for her to imagine that Mrs. Drupe could be otherwise than grateful for any manifestation of a friendly interest in her husband.

  49. But it will be a good lesson to those ladies who found fault with me for nothing when they see how much Mrs. Drupe thinks of me.

  50. The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors.

  51. The firm-fleshed drupe is heart-shaped, black or red, sweet or bitter, with scanty juice which stains the fingers.

  52. The drupe is in this species round, with red skin and juicy flesh of a distinctly acid character.

  53. Laet calls the tree totocke, and mentions the drupe of the size of the human head, which contains the almonds.

  54. The drupe is obliquely oval, and about the size of a goose egg, containing a large kernel which is edible when roasted, but is not especially palatable.

  55. The foliage and crimson flowers resemble those of the Jambosa malaccensis, but the drupe is not so highly colored, and is, in shape, much more elongated.

  56. The ovary has a thick style and capitate stigma (c), and the fruit is a drupe (d).

  57. The mass of flowers is called a spadix; and it is succeeded by the fruit, which, when ripe, is either a drupe or a berry.

  58. The fruit is a drupe which is nearly dry, containing a one-celled nut, enclosing from one to three seeds.

  59. The Olive (Olea sativa) has small white flowers, resembling those of the Privet, and a fleshy drupe like a Sloe, with a one or two celled stone or nut.

  60. The stamens frequently grow together into a central column; and the fruit is a drupe or one-seeded berry, generally scarlet, but sometimes black.

  61. In Pistacia, the fruit is a dry drupe inclosing a nut, which is eatable in P.

  62. The fruit is two or four celled, and a drupe or a berry, and the calyx of the flowers is tubular, and persistent round it; but the corolla is deciduous, and falls off long before the fruit is ripe.


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