Wednesday, September 23, 2015

droop, drupe

Droop or droop means to bend, sag, or hang down, from weakness or exhaustion--
The flowers will droop if you don't put them in water soon.
He begins to droop every afternoon about this time.

Drupe or drupe ( rhymes with droop ) means a stone fruit, such as a peach, plum, or cherry, with soft pulp covering one hard shell or seed covering--
A newly planted drupe will take a few years to bear fruit.
They make a concoction of drupe pits, said to cure a lot of diseases.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"Use some drupe branches in your arrangement; they won't droop, even when the other flowers are dead."

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