Is a coconut a fruit???

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or is it a nut?

im haivng a bad day

Fruit

aren't fruits supposes to have seeds inside them? Wouldn't that mean the coconut was a nut?

A strawberry doesn't have seeds inside, still a fruit.

isn't it a nut? Isn;t that why its called a cocoNUT or am I being simplistic?

a cocnut doesn;t have any seeds anywhere

To be accurate a coconut is a drupe

is the coconut the seed? it must be

and a drupe is...........?

Its a nut thats why its called cocoNUT

drupe  ? noun Botany
any fruit, as a peach, cherry, plum, etc., consisting of an outer skin, a usually pulpy and succulent middle layer, and a hard and woody inner shell usually enclosing a single seed.

I have no idea where those extra numbers came from

but a coconut doesnt have a seed inside so it cant be a drupe

it must be a nut

quite right it is a drupe and drupes and nuts are all types of fruit with only one seed.

Peaches are drupes.

nuts are single seed fruits

so the difference between a nut and a fruit is....................

Nah np, you missed this bit of my definition:

usually enclosing a single seed.

fruits are soft, nuts ahve hard cases?

so where is the seed in a coconut? how does it reproduce?

I'm not helping am I

aahaa! (to st g)

LOL @ kelly

Nuts, drupes, call 'em what you like - they are all (as suej said) fruit.

nuts are fruit?

really?

Fruits are the means by which flowering plants disseminate seeds (there are many definitions)