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(redirected from drupe)

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The coconut is not a nut at all, but a drupe, a category of fruit.
And the coconut is a drupe - a fruit with a hard kernel, like the cherry or plum.
Stone or drupe fruits are classified together because of their single, hard, bony seeds inside the soft fleshy fruit.
 
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