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Well,

Its a fruit. Like me.

Fruit...because it houses the seeds of a plant. A vegetable *is* part of a plant...or something like that.

I sensed a war on this starting earlier....

I used to think it was a veg, but have been told loads of times that its a fruit


what fence?

How about a marrow then, or a pumpkin or evern a cucumber....

hi A Dent,

(this guy just won't give up! )

From Dictionary.com:

Tomato:
1. A widely cultivated South American plant (Lycopersicon esculentum) having edible, fleshy, usually red fruit.
2. The fruit of this plant.

az

(this guy just won't give up!

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I take it thats the round fruit type not the crop type then

Crop categorizations like that might depend on what country you are in, actually.

btw, the singular noun doesn't have an 'e' at the end.

az

Hi-ya az

Crop categorizations like this was in the UK, for the European market

BTW. Typo, sorry but it's been a long day.

A fruitable

Nicely put Agapanthus

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Well, surely that just means that certain varieties of tomatoes are marketed as vegetables - it doesn't change the fact that they are fruit.

az

I take it thats the round fruit type not the crop type then

Not an infallible rule, but I think vegetables are usually cooked before eating, whereas fruit can be consumed raw.

Some veg are the fruit of the plant, all fruit are also the fruit of the plant. (Read that really slowly!)

My point exactly, but put much better than I could, Teasswill, and there lies the confusion,

helloo Teasswill,

They have seeds, are rippened on teh plant above ground, growing from that whatsit thing, and they are most definately a pumpkin.

*waves to A.Dent*

A small pumkin, you must admit

Must Must have been a typo... or speling misteak Pumpkin=fruit

Whichever way you spell it, there is no 'e' in either tomato or 'compliments' (at least of the type you were talking about).

A fruit is the part of a plant which carries a seed, therefore a tomato is a fruit, but a tomato plant (which is only named such because it produces tomato fruit) is a vegetable.

B

Collins English Dictionary:

fruit:
1) the ripened ovary of a flowering plant, containing one or more seeds. It may be dry, as in the poppy, or fleshy, as in the peach.
2) any fleshy part of a plant, other than the above structure, that supports the seeds and is edible, such as the strawberry

vegetable:
1) any of various herbaceous plants having parts that are used as food, such as peas, beans, cabbage, potatoes, califlower, and onions.

tomato:
1) a solanaceous plant, Lycopersicon esculentum, of South America, widely cultivated for its red fleshy many-seeded edible fruit.
2) the fruit of this plant, which has a slightly acid-tasting flesh and is eaten in salads, as a vegetable, etc



az