27 Apr 05
Originally posted by geniusYeah, if you think about what a fruit is, it forms from a flower which is fertilised, and the fruit grows.
from what i remember, fruits have seeds while vegtables are seeds...not quite positive though though.
So things like pumpkins, aubergines, marrows, tomatoes are fruit.
But why is it fruit and not fruits?
27 Apr 05
From Ask Dr Dictionary at Dictionary.com:
"A fruit is actually the sweet, ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant. A vegetable, in contrast, is an herbaceous plant cultivated for an edible part (seeds, roots, stems, leaves, bulbs, tubers, or nonsweet fruits). So, to be really nitpicky, a fruit could be a vegetable, but a vegetable could not be a fruit."