Drupe vs Pome - What's the difference?
drupe | pome |
A stone fruit.
* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 71:
A type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels.
A ball of silver or other metal, filled with hot water and used by a Roman Catholic priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.
(obsolete) To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.
As nouns the difference between drupe and pome
is that drupe is a stone fruit while pome is a type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels.As a verb pome is
to grow to a head, or form a head in growing.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 [...].
