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    Is a coconut a fruit?

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    +1  Views: 544 Answers: 2 Posted: 14 years ago
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      It is and it isn't. It's a drupe. A drupe is a fruit with a hard stony covering enclosing the seed. A drupe has three layers.

      14 years ago. Rating: 2
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        Coconuts are classified as a fibrous one-seeded drupe. A drupe is a fruit with a hard stony covering enclosing the seed (like a peach or olive) and comes from the word drupa meaning overripe olive. A coconut, and all drupes, have three layers:  the exocarp (outer layer), the mesocarp (fleshy middle layer), and the endocarp (hard, woody layer that surrounds the seed).

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