Stone

• Title

  Stone

• Definition

  The nut or nutlet in a drupe; i.e., the hardened part of a drupe or a duplet (= endocarp) containing a single seed. In non-scientific language it is called the pit.

• Related Terms

  Drupe

  Pyrene

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