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

Glabrous, somewhat spinescent, 5–10° high; leaves thin, oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, often serrulate; drupe elongated-oblong, usually pointed.—Wet river banks, S. W.

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