An indehiscent 1-celled and 1-seeded hard and bony fruit, even if resulting from a compound ovary.CH Common usage however expands what are considered nuts beyond true nuts.
True nuts
- Order Fagales
Common use nuts
These are often called or considered nuts, though they don't meet the strict botanical definition.
Korean Pine pine nuts — unshelled, and shell, above; shelled, below
Some fruits and seeds that are nuts in the culinary sense but not in the botanical sense:
- Almond is the edible seed of a drupe — the leathery "flesh" is removed at harvest.
- Brazil nut is the seed from a capsule.
- Candlenut (used for oil) is a seed.
- Cashew nut is a seed.
- Coconut is a dry, fibrous drupe.
- Horse-chestnut is an inedible capsule.
- Macadamia nut is a creamy white kernel (Macadamia integrifolia).
- Peanut is a legume and a seed.
- Pine nut is the seed of several species of pine (coniferous trees).
- Pistachio nut is the seed of a thin-shelled drupe.
See also
| This article contains a definition from the Glossary of Gardening Terms. |