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Drupe vs Druse - What's the difference?

drupe | druse |

As nouns the difference between drupe and druse

is that drupe is a stone fruit while druse is .

drupe

English

(wikipedia drupe)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A stone fruit.
  • * 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 71:
  • 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 [...].

    Derived terms

    * drupelet

    Anagrams

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    druse

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (mineralogy) An inner surface with a crust of tiny crystals.
  • * 1889 , Dana et al'', ''A System of Mineralogy
  • Occurs as a fine coating over the minerals in druses or cavities in the granite.
  • * 1984 , Science Reports of the Tohoku University
  • A lot of druses are found in the vein, and euhedral crystals of quartz, marcasite and sphalerite are observed as druse minerals.
  • (botany) An aggregation of calcium oxalate crystals found in certain plants.
  • (ophthalmology) A tiny yellow or white accumulation of extracellular material that builds up in Bruch's membrane of the eye.
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