stone fruit (stonfrot)

[= D. steenvrucht = G. steinfrucht = Sw. stenfrukt = Dan. stenfrugt; as stone + fruit.] In bot., a drupe; a fruit whose seeds are covered with a hard shell enveloped in a pulp, as the peach, cherry, and plum. See drupe. Bring with you the kernels of peares and apples, and the stones of such stone fruits as you shall find there. IMG:content-2191.jpg:[graphic] Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 439. Same as staniel. true crickets (which belong to the orthopterous family Gryllidæ or Achetida ). There are many species, of various parts of the world, some simply called crickets, and others cave -crickets. The commonest American stone-crickets belong to the genus Ceuthophilus, as C. maculatus, etc. See cave - cricket, and cut under Hadenæcus. stonecrop (stōn'krop), n. [