Cooks and grocers define nuts as anything with edible kernels and hard shells. This includes true nuts like chestnuts and acorns, but also things that botanists would class as seeds, like Brazil nuts, or legumes, like peanuts.
Coconut
Coconut- A large nut-like fruit with a hard brown shell, hard white edible flesh and a white milky liquid inside, or the white flesh of this fruit.
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