What's the difference between seeds and nuts?

Question

A nut is a type of fruit. Right? So then what is a fruit?
A fruit is a mature ovary from a flower. Right? Every fruit contains one or more
seeds. And what is a seed?
A seed is an embryonic plant encased in a covering, called the seed coat or
integument. Right? Every seed has the potential to germinate and grow into a mature
adult plant. Apple seeds grow into trees! Right? What about acorns? Where is the "fruit"? *s* Bring on your 'answers'! (I'm bored)

Please no cut & paste! It's very unoriginal!

So the word "nut" is simply describing the hard outer coating that protects the softer inside seed. So what's the difference between a seed's "shell" and a nut's outer "coating"?

Answer 1

All seeds are encased in some form of fruit. Fruit is anything that protects a seed. It doesn't neccessarily have to taste sweet and juicy like an apple. Nuts are a type of fruit, and they also encase seeds. Seeds are just what you said, an embryonic plant encased in a covering called the seed coat. Seeds are sort of like baby plants. They have everything that they need to grow except soil and sunlight. Now, the parents of these seeds what to protect their 'babies', so they give them more protection. They do this by wrapping the fruit around the seeds. Now, nuts are types of fruit, so they are also protecting the seeds. However, they are different from seeds.

A nut is a seed, but not all seeds are nuts. A seed comes from fruit and can be removed from the fruit. A nut is a type of seed that is also a fruit, and the fruit and the seed cannot be separated (unless you're eating it).

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Answer 2

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What's the difference between seeds and nuts?
A nut is a type of fruit. Right? So then what is a fruit?
A fruit is a mature ovary from a flower. Right? Every fruit contains one or more
seeds. And what is a seed?
A seed is an embryonic plant encased in a covering, called the seed coat or
integument. Right? Every seed has the potential...

Answer 3

Are Nuts Seeds

Answer 4

So with acorns, the seed is encased in that hard outer coating. You can crack that nut and there's your seed. The nut IS the fruit, as all nuts are fruit to a botanist.
See, there's the botanical terms and the common parlance. Let's take a couple examples from the genus Prunus. Almonds and peaches (and cherries and apricots and plums...) are both in this genus. Botanists would say they both bear fruit, but in common speech one bears nuts and one fruit. Botanists would generally call almonds (and peaches etc.) drupes, not nuts. Drupes are a single seed encased in a hardened shell surrounded by more-or-less fleshy tissue. Nuts are a seed encased in an indehiscent (non-opening) hard shell.

Answer 5

BOTANICALLY speaking: nuts are woody fruits, so the almond or walnut or brazil nut shell is the fruit we don't eat and what you eat is the seed.
Fleshy fruits are the sweet and non-sweet fruits we like to eat, but the seeds within fleshy fruits we may or may not spit out or throw away or plant. Legumes are fruits in pod form. We may eat both the pod and or the seeds inside the pod, like beans and peas.

Same is true of corn kernals. They are the seeds-fruits at the same time even though we call them a grain. We can either eat or plant the cornkernal. Wheat berries are the fruits we grind up for flour.

Answer 6

A nut shell in this case scenario is thicker and a seed coat can be thin or thick too! Ever try to cut into some seeds without soaking them first? (Like a Castor bean?)
Acorns are the fruit "nut" that germinates to produce the mighty oak.....we can go on and on with this.....Just remember all things that are fruits are not what one typically purchases from a grocery store in the produce aisle and is sweet and aesthetically appealing in aroma and appearance....butternut squash? pepper? pumpkin?...these are all fruits and were formed from a flower's mature ripened ovary......need more???
I have a masters in botanical sciences!!!!

Answer 7

There is NO difference...both are seeds. Seed is a generic term for any reproductive pod emitted by a plant for the purpose of probagation. "Nut" is a slang word that has gained acceptance to describe an edible seed, with some exceptions...both sunflower seeds and pecan seeds could be considered "nuts" as both have a hard shell and propagate a new plant. Yet we call a pecan seed a "nut" and a sunflower seed a "seed." Symantics, no more, no less.

Answer 8

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seed and nuts grow from flowers. but seed are formed inside a fruit. where as nuts are mostly not formed inside fruit. nuts have very hard shell compared to seed. basically trees grow from both. we can say all nuts are seed but all seeds are not nuts.

Answer 9

It's the thickness of their "shells" that make them different..True nuts only grow on trees..unlike peanuts which are legumes.~smiles

Answer 10

hi, i think you're all nuts,,, how's that?