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Coconut fruit is a

Options

  1. ADrupe
  2. BBerry
  3. CNut
  4. DCapsule

Correct answer

A. Drupe

Step-by-step solution

Coconut fruit (stone fruit) is a drupe. A drupe develops from the monocarpellary superior ovary and is one-seeded. It is an indehiscent fruit in which an outer fleshy part exocarp (or skin) and mesocarp (or flesh) surround a single shell pyrene of hardened endocarp with a seed endocarp.

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