Question:
Is a coconut a fruit or a nut?
monkerdoodles
2007-07-08 05:53:21 UTC
Or is it something else?
Eight answers:
anonymous
2007-07-08 06:04:07 UTC
It's a fruit.
If u were wondering, It's me
2007-07-08 13:01:01 UTC
Neither, It's a seed.







The fruit of the coconut (Cocos nucifera) is technically a large, dry drupe (D) composed of a thin outer layer (exocarp), a thick, fibrous middle layer called a mesocarp (F), and a hard inner layer called an endocarp (E) that surrounds a large seed. The endocarp (A) contains three germination pores at one end, one of which the sprouting coconut palm grows through. The "meat" of the seed is endosperm tissue (B) and a small, cylindrical embryo is embedded in this nutritive tissue just opposite the functional germination pore. The seed is surrounded by an outer brown layer called the seed coat or testa. This is the brown material that adheres to the white "meat" or endosperm when it is removed from the endocarp shell. "Coconut water" (C) is multinucleate liquid endosperm that has not developed into solid tissue composed of cells. Copra comes from the meat of dried coconuts, while coir fibers are derived from the fibrous mesocarp
1st lady
2007-07-08 14:30:17 UTC
A fruittty nut
magicaldad
2007-07-08 13:00:56 UTC
It is a nut - technically, the seed of the coconut palm tree.
Bexah
2007-07-08 13:02:00 UTC
Coconut is a nut.
revathy l
2007-07-08 13:37:06 UTC
its a nut. cocoNUT.its used for cooking . they take oil from the nut.
anonymous
2007-07-08 13:01:19 UTC
Fruit.



Nuts don't contain juice.
liljames
2007-07-08 13:01:23 UTC
it grows on tree... so it's a fruit...


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