(n.) A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hinokiflavone (1) was isolated as the cytotoxic principle from the drupes of Rhus succedanea L. A comparison of the cytotoxicity of 1 and other related biflavonoids, including amentoflavone (2), robustaflavone (3), agathisflavone (4), rhusflavone (5), rhusflavanone (6) and its hexaacetate (7), succedaneaflavanone (8) and its hexaacetate (9), cupressuflavone (10), neorhusflavanone (11), volkensiflavone (12) and its hexamethyl ether (13), spicataside (14) and its nonaacetate (15), morelloflavone (16) and its heptaacetate (17) and heptamethyl ether (18), GB-1a (19) and its hexamethyl ether (20) and 7"-O-beta-glucoside (21), and GB-2a (22), indicates that an ether linkage between two units of apigenin as seen in 1 is structurally required for significant cytotoxicity.
(2) On the outer atoll of Arno, families work together every day, six days a week, collecting fallen drupes, removing the husks, skilfully shucking the flesh (called copra) and drying it in makeshift ovens.
(3) Here, we are dealing with what is known as food-associated allergy syndrome, which is largely based on a cross reaction between certain types of pollen (birch, alder, hazel and mugwort) and food allergens (drupes, pomes, nuts, vegetables such as celery, carrots and fennel, etc.).
Druse
Definition:
(n.) A cavity in a rock, having its interior surface studded with crystals and sometimes filled with water; a geode.
(n.) One of a people and religious sect dwelling chiefly in the Lebanon mountains of Syria.
Example Sentences:
(1) A similar decline in Arabs and Druse has not been identified and awaits further analysis.
(2) Histologically, a destructive variant of the development of actinomycotic granulomas with degenerating druses of the ray fungus and mycelial inclusions was revealed.
(3) The Ytb allelic frequencies ranged between 0.1005 and 0.1522 in the Jewish communities and were 0.1294 and 0.1429 in the Arab and Druse communities, respectively.
(4) The lobe area and the diameter of the central veins were stated to have a different morphometric index, that demonstrates the presence, in the dog liver, of certain lobar complexes arranged like druses in a rock crystal.
(5) Characteristic actinomycetic druses are found histologically only in the right Fallopian tube.
(6) The pin-point lesions corresponded to single enlarged retinal pigment epithelial cells with lipid accumulation and the larger area represented a small, localized retinal pigment epithelial detachment (soft druse).
(7) It was possible to distinguish between albipunctatus-dots and druses by fluorescenceangiography.
(8) The prevalence of at least one druse within 1500 microns of the foveal center was extremely common (over 80% in each age group over 30 years of age) and not age related.
(9) The Yta and Ytb allelic frequencies were determined by examining the red cells of 1683 blood samples from Israeli Jews, Arabs, and Druse with anti-Yta and -Ytb.
(10) The soft druse was associated with thickening of the basement membrane of the retinal pigment epithelium.