Yes, commonly the word nut is used for any seed or fruit having an edible kernel surrounded by a hard or brittle covering.
Cashew "nuts" are not true nuts. They have no shell.
On occasion you can get a peanut shell that contains one or even four nuts. But one and two nuts per shell are the most common.
No, nuts are fruits or berries with a hard shell like skin round them.
Nutmeats refers to nuts with the shell removed.
They will not make you sick at all and are of no harm to you. Very common in most in shell nuts you have probably had them before now knowing.
This is one type of fruit which grows underground, while stem and leaf grow aground. The peanut has shell like the shape "8"
Yes, doesn't hurt a thing.
There are usually 2 peanuts to a shell, though there can be 1 or 3 or even 4 of the "nuts" in a shell.By the way, peanuts are not really nuts. They are legumes, as are beans and peas.
because its like a pea pod and anyways the wud be no use of the shell if it was attached
It looks like the shell weighs about the same as the kernel. 1 oz of shelled nuts is approx 49 kernels. so roughly 25 in shell nuts should equal 1 oz.
you eat the nuts inside the shell of course.
because it keeps it fresh