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Hard fruit not soft vegetable (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

haricot

'vegetable' is the definition.
(haricot is a kind of vegetable)

I cannot understand how the rest of the clue works.

(Other definitions for haricot that I've seen before include "Vegetable" , "French bean" , "kind of ragout" , "Variety of bean" , "Type of bean in a chariot" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun and The Times.
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