Is coconut a fruit?!


Question: If not, what is it then?


Answers: If not, what is it then?

Though its name suggests that it is a nut, I've always regarded coconut as a fruit. When the coconut is young, it has properties like fruit, and as it matures, it becomes more nutty. But in fact it is not a nut or a fruit; it is a seed.

yes

Maybe it is a nut.

the coconut is the seed of the tree.

Is it not, in fact- and correct me if I'm off the mark here- a kind of nut?

Wikipedia refers to it as fruit, nut, and seed, so I'm a little confused... but I have found out that it's name comes from the Spanish for witch- so basically, when it was discovered by Europeans they called it the 'witch face nut'... woo-ooo...

OF COURSE IT IS

yep its a fruit

yes

It is a nut, and a nut is a FRUIT consisting of a hard shell surrounding an edible kernel - work that one out

last i heard its considered a fruit but things change daily

people get all worked up about that fruit veggie thing

in Botany, all flowers get a fruit

could be a veggie, a seed, a drupe, whatever

The coconut nut is a giant nut
If you eat too much, you'll get very fat
Now, the coconut nut is a big, big nut
But its delicious nut is not a nut

It's the coco fruit (it's the coco fruit)
Of the coco tree (of the coco tree)
From the coco palm family

There are so many uses of the coconut tree
You can build a big house for the family
All you need is to find a coconut man
If he catch the tree, he gets the fruit free

The coconut bark for the kitchen floor
If you save some of it, you can build the door
Now, the coconut trunk, do not throw this junk
If you save some of it, you'll have a second floor

The coconut wood is very good
It can stand 20 years if you create (?) wood
Now, the coconut fruit, to tell you the truth
You can probe it or use it as firewood

The coconut leaves could shade it gives
For the roof, for the walls up against the eaves
Now, the coconut fruit, say my relatives
Make good cannonballs up against the eaves

ole!

Culinarily, speaking it is both a nut and a fruit. Botanists, however, classify it as a nut.

no it comes under the nut catergory

co·co·nut also co·coa·nut (kk-nt, -nt)

1. The fruit of the coconut palm, consisting of a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.





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