Donate SIGN UP

Difference between a seed an a nut?

Avatar Image
darragh | 22:37 Thu 31st Mar 2005 | Home & Garden
5 Answers
Anybody know the difference between a seed and a nut? after all they both produce new plant life.
Gravatar

Answers

1 to 5 of 5rss feed

Best Answer

No best answer has yet been selected by darragh. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.

For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.

Seed...

a. A ripened plant ovule containing an embryo.
b. A propagative part of a plant, as a tuber or spore.
c. The seed-bearing stage of a plant.

Nut...

a. An indehiscent, hard-shelled, one-loculated, one-seeded fruit, such as an acorn or hazelnut.
b. A seed borne within a fruit having a hard shell, as in the peanut, almond, or walnut.
c. The kernel of any of these.

I wonder how many others had to look up the word indehescent...
Whoops. Indehiscent.
In the days when we were young and evil and in school i recall after a botany class we named one of the girls in our class an 'indehiscent bean'. She ofcourse did not take kindly to it. I would like to publicly apologise to her if she is on AB. It was not a nice thing to say to anyone.

What's indecent about a nut?

A seed is defined as a "plant structure (as a spore or small dry fruit) capable of producing a new plant." So a seed is anything that can produce a new plant.

A nut is defined partially as a "a hard-shelled dry fruit (as a peanut in the shell) or seed (as a Brazil nut) with an inner kernel." (There's more to the definition, but that's the important part.)

From reading both definitions, you could conclude that nuts are seeds that have hard outer shells. So a nut always contains a seed, but a seed isn't necessarily a nut.

1 to 5 of 5rss feed

Do you know the answer?

Difference between a seed an a nut?

Answer Question >>

Related Questions

Sorry, we can't find any related questions. Try using the search bar at the top of the page to search for some keywords, or choose a topic and submit your own question.