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plural drupes
(botany) a kind of fruit, with a fleshy exterior, formed from the exocarp and mesocarp, surrounding a hardened endocarp which protects the seed. quotations examples
Her bare foot slipped, and the two panting youngsters tangled ignominiously among the branches, in a shower of drupes and leaves, clutching at each other [...].
1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 71