drupe
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First, there are those cashews, which are not nuts at all but technically fruit; they’re the drupe seeds that extend under the apple of the cashew tree.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2022
Though sometimes referred to as a berry, the fruit of Piper nigrum is a drupe, as are stone fruits, meaning that it consists of a seed in the center surrounded by a layer of flesh.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2022
In botany, this is called the suture, and it gives drupe fruits – a category that includes peaches, plums and olives – a seam that can split to release its seed-bearing pit.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2019
In botany, this is called the suture, and it gives drupe fruits, a category that includes peaches, plums and olives, a seam that can split to release its seed-bearing pit.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2019
Celastraceæ, 109 Calyx minute; fruit a berry-like drupe.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
