Fruits....Vegies....?!
What's the difference betwwen a fruit and a vegetable?
Answers: Are cucumbers fruits or vegetables?
What's the difference betwwen a fruit and a vegetable?
Cucumbers are fruits.
Technically speaking, a fruit is the mature ovary of a plant. So a plant bearing a seed surrounded by a fleshy tissue is called a fruit. This includes tomatoes, peas, melons, and pumpkins for example. Also, fruits are developed from flowers.
A vegetable is considered anything else we take from a plant, like the roots or leaves. So onions and lettuce would be vegetables.
Interesting, huh?
vegetable:
1. any plant whose fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food, as the tomato, bean, beet, potato, onion, asparagus, spinach, or cauliflower.
2. the edible part of such a plant, as the tuber of the potato.
fruit
1. any product of plant growth useful to humans or animals.
2. the developed ovary of a seed plant with its contents and accessory parts, as the pea pod, nut, tomato, or pineapple.
3. the edible part of a plant developed from a flower, with any accessory tissues, as the peach, mulberry, or banana.