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Log out. US Markets Loading H M S In the news. Executive Lifestyle. Mark Abadi. Think you can tell a fruit from a vegetable? Though a tomato plant is indeed herbaceous—its parts are not woody, and it grows for only one season—a vegetable is by our definition only the plant itself or the edible part of such a plant.
Meanwhile the thing a tomato plant produces isn't a part of the plant itself, any more than the egg a chicken lays is part of the chicken, or the apple is part of the tree on which it grew. And so it is here that we turn to the relevant definition of fruit : "the usually edible reproductive body of a seed plant; especially : one having a sweet pulp. A tomato isn't sweet like an apple, but the definition doesn't require it to be in order to qualify as a fruit.
By these technical definitions, then, our truculent pill friend is correct: a tomato is a fruit, and so is a pepper, and so is a cucumber, and so are all the squashes, even zucchini. Any thing that grows on a plant and is the means by which that plant gets its seeds out into the world is a fruit. Carrots and potatoes and parsnips and the like are of course still vegetables; they are the edible part of the plant, not its reproductive body.
So there. We will not, however, abandon you to the gloating of your truculent pill friend without some source of consolation. In closing, we offer instead some information you may use as your own ammunition of truculence: strawberries are not technically berries, but bananas are. Brief explanation: the seeds technically achenes of a strawberry are embedded on its exterior, while a true berry has its seeds inside the pulpy flesh.
Which makes bananas berries. Same goes for cucumbers and zucchinis. Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!
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