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hazelnuts from the common hazel botanically , a nut is a hard, indehiscent (not opening to discharge seeds), simple, dry fruit , whereby the plant 's ovary wall becomes very hard (stony or woody) at maturity, and where the seed remains unattached or unfused with the ovary wall. examples of such true nuts
include acorns , chestnuts , hazelnuts, and pecans. however, the term nut also is used in less restrictive culinary terms to refer to any edible seed that is surrounded by a hard shell. while brazil nuts, peanuts, and almonds are called nuts in a culinary sense, they are really seeds, enclosed variously...
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