Drupe vs Druse - What's the difference?
drupe | druse |
A stone fruit.
* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 71:
(mineralogy) An inner surface with a crust of tiny crystals.
* 1889 , Dana et al'', ''A System of Mineralogy
* 1984 , Science Reports of the Tohoku University
(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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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)- 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
* drupeletAnagrams
* ----druse
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Occurs as a fine coating over the minerals in druses or cavities in the granite.
- A lot of druses are found in the vein, and euhedral crystals of quartz, marcasite and sphalerite are observed as druse minerals.