is a coconut a nut?

Question

or in the nut family

Answer 1

Nope - despite its name a coconut is a fruit or sometimes known as a 'drupe' which is a fleshy fruit.

Answer 2

Definition :
Coconut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fruits collected from the sea as far north as Norway have been ... Botanically, a coconut is a simple dry fruit known as a fibrous drupe (not a true nut) ...

The term coconut refers to the fruit of the coconut palm.

Answer 3

Botanically, a coconut is a simple dry fruit known as a fibrous drupe (not a true nut). The husk (mesocarp) is composed of fibers called coir and there is an inner "stone" (the endocarp). This hard endocarp (the outside of the

Answer 4

The Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the Family Arecaceae (palm family). It is the only species in the genus Cocos, and is a large palm, growing to 30 m tall, with pinnate leaves 4-6 m long, pinnae 60-90 cm long; old leaves break away cleanly leaving the trunk smooth. The term coconut refers to the fruit of the coconut palm.

The coconut palm is grown throughout the tropical world, for decoration as well as for its many culinary and non-culinary uses; virtually every part of the coconut palm has some human use.

Answer 5

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.

Unless it is picked, a matured coconut eventually drops from the tree. The fully developed hard shell does not crack easily. Dry and brown, the coconut may sit underneath the tree for months and appear as if it were dead, until one day a green shoot pushes its way out of the shell. The whole time the old coconut has been sitting under the tree, changes have been slowly taking place inside. At one end of the coconut (where the eyes are), an embryo starts growing, feeding off the juice and nutrition of the thick white flesh. This embryo develops into a creamy mass that gradually fills much of the empty space inside. It is good to eat – sweet, somewhat spongy and less fibrous than the matured meat.

The embryo eventually sprouts out of the shell and becomes a young coconut seedling. At this point, the plant can survive for several more weeks or months on the food and water inside as roots gradually develop and extend out of the shell to anchor the plant in the ground. Nutritious coconut meat can sustain life for a long time; one of my students, who is a horticulturist, has successfully used coconut milk to nurse seedlings of other plants in his greenhouse. Coconut palms lead a long productive life. They begin bearing fruits at the age of five to seven years and continue to do so until they are seventy to eighty years old.

As complete seed packages, coconuts have been known to travel to faraway lands to find new homesteads. Stories abound of coconuts floating their way across seas and oceans to be washed ashore on distant islands, rooting themselves in handsome groves to greet visiting humans in search of paradise. The dehusked coconuts you buy at the supermarket, however, are no longer productive seed packages. Once the husk is removed, the seed dies.

Answer 6

No no no! you're all nuts, a coconut is a flower : P

According to Maestro Ryan Cayabyab:

A coconut nut is a giant nut
If you eat too much you get very fat.
Now a coconut nut is a big big nut
But it's delicious nut is not a nut!

It's the cocofruit (it's the coocofruit!)
of the cocotree (of the cocotree!)
From the cocopalm family!

Ole! : P

Answer 7

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.

Answer 8

No, it is known as a simple dry fruit called a 'fibrous drupe, not a true nut'

Answer 9

No its not a nut, its whats called a drupe (a simple dry fruit). Other examples of drupes are peaches and nectarines.

Answer 10

its in the nut family