pyrene
/ˈpaɪriːn/
noun
- The hard stone or pit inside a fruit, such as a peach, plum, or cherry.
- The cherry's pyrene is too hard to bite through, so you have to spit it out.
- Some fruits, like olives, have a single pyrene in the center.
- She carefully removed the pyrene from the peach before slicing it.
- A type of small, hard seed or nutlet found in certain fruits, especially in the rose family.
- Botanists study the shape of pyrenes to identify different species of plants.
- Blackberries are made up of many tiny drupelets, each containing a small pyrene.
- The raspberry's pyrenes are what give it that slightly crunchy texture.