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Webster 1828 Edition

Noun.

[stone and fruit.] Fruit whose seeds are covered with a hard shell enveloped in the pulp, as peaches, cherries, plums, &c.; a drupe.

See also: stonefruit and stone fruit

stone-fruit

attributive form of stone fruit
It had a stone-fruit taste to it: it tasted something like a nectarine, actually.