drupe

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So called for the singular pit or stone at the center — which houses a seed inside — stone fruit, also known as drupes, are generally in season late May through early October in the United States.

From Seattle Times

Also known as drupes, this category includes peaches, plums, cherries, nectarines, apricots, and pluots.

From Salon

“Apricots and almonds go well together,” he says, noting that they are both in the drupe — or stone fruit — family.

From Seattle Times

The drupes are picked well before they ripen.

From New York Times

Her intense, often color-saturated photographs pulse with spellbinding strangeness: squids, jellies and nudibranchs; whelks, bloodworms and drupes; conches, urchins and chitons.

From New York Times