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

Ovary 1–several-celled; fruit a berry, drupe, or pod, 1–several-seeded.

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