DRUPE

In Botany, a oue-ceUed, one or two-seeded, superior, indehiscent fruit; the outer coat is soft and fleshy, and separable from the inner or endocarpium (stone), which is hard and bony: the whole proceeding from an ovarium, which is perfectly simple. The peach, plum, apricot, cherry, are examples of this. [s. 379]