fruit or nut??

[DINGO11]

Is a coconut a fruit?

[Buenchico]

It depends who you ask. Your local greengrocer probably doesn't think of a coconut as a fruit but most dictionaries say that for something to be considered a fruit it has to meet two criteria:
Firstly, it has to be the part of a plant which contains the seed(s);
Secondly, it has to be edible.
By this definition, ALL edible nuts are fruit.

Chris

[kleedham]

Well, all nuts are fruit, but not all fruit are nuts so (f we are all agreed that it is "a product of a fertilised ovary")... the only question we need to ask is whether it is a nut or not. The dictionary definition of a nut is a "dry, indehiscent, single-seeded fruit with a hard woody wall" and I guess coconuts just aren't dry. So it's a fruit.