Botany

[Bill Palmer]

I stand corrected.  A too hasty glance @ Dictionary.com on a word that I
didn't know, but many others apparently do..

But that makes the street name even weirder, if an apple isn't classified as
"drupe", n'est-ce pas?

Bill P
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> I think my old Systematic Botany teacher would agree with you, Jim.
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>> Bill Palmer wrote:
>> > (I had to look up "drupe"...a class of fruit having a peeling,
>> > succulent
>> > center, and a pit or seed, such as an apple).
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>> Hm. My understanding (buttressed by the Britannica) is that a drupe only
>> has
>> one (or, occasionally, two or three) seeds; a peach is a drupe, but an
>> apple is
>> not. Apples are pomes. (Pomes have a papery sheath at the core, typically
>> enclosing about five seeds.)
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>> Jim Parish
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