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[โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

If strawberries are nuts, cashews are nuts. It's a seed that grows on the outside of an accessory fruit.

Obviously strawberries aren't nuts either but we're playing pretty fast and loose with words and meanings.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    The "nut" from a cashew is the seed a stone fruit (like the center of a peach pit). The strawberry "seed" is the entire fruit.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago*

    I don't see why the apple from a cashew can't also be classified as an aggregate accessory fruit, like the red flesh of the strawberry, which would make the cashew pit an achene like the seeds of a strawberry.

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