HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
FRUIT SCIENCE
Question
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Fleshy fruit with a stony seed/pit
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Drupe
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Pepo
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Pome
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Hespiridium
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -drupe, in botany, simple fleshy fruit that usually contains a single seed, such as the cherry, peach, and olive. As a simple fruit, a drupe is derived from a single ovary of an individual flower.
Detailed explanation-2: -So the correct answer is ‘drupe’.
Detailed explanation-3: -A drupe is a type of fruit in which an outer fleshy part surrounds a shell (what we sometimes call a pit) with a seed inside. Some examples of drupes are peaches, plums, and cherries-but walnuts, almonds, and pecans are also drupes. They’re just drupes in which we eat the seed inside the pit instead of the fruit!
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