Someone asked what's my favourite vegetable (here on YA)and I aswered watermelon because watermelon is a vegetable? Right??? It 's from the same family with the cucumber. So? fruit or veggie?
2006-08-20 04:41:44 · 37 answers · asked by Pearl 5 in Family & Relationships ➔ Friends
fruit
2006-08-20 04:46:51 · answer #1 · answered by kitty katty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fruit
2006-08-20 04:44:44 · answer #2 · answered by Gur8 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus, Family Cucurbitaceae) is the fruit and plant of a vine-like (climber and trailer) herb originally from southern Africa. This flowering plant bears an accessory fruit of a type that botanists call a false berry. The watermelon fruit, loosely considered a type of melon (although not in the genus Cucumis), has a smooth exterior rind (green and yellow) and a juicy, sweet, usually red or yellow interior flesh.The species descriptor Citrullus vulgaris is sometimes, synonymously, used to refer to this plant (vulgaris meaning "common" — Shosteck, 1974).
2006-08-20 04:51:42 · answer #3 · answered by jamshed007us 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Watermelon is a fruit. For more information why it is a fruit, look at the resource below! It explains everything from how the watermelon got it's name, to who discovered it.
2006-08-20 04:47:24 · answer #4 · answered by Stella 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard Watermelon is a veggie. Tomatoes have always been the debate. But watermelon is definately fruit.
2006-08-20 04:46:10 · answer #5 · answered by legguy2003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Watermelon is both.
We call mostly vegetable fruits in general.
Same family as pumpkin, tomato, bitter melon, cumcumber, eggplant, pepper although inside, it contains many seeds. Still, we usually used in main dish( entree, appetizer, soup, salad). We ate watermelon during our main courses before our dessert.
To be a fruit, it must be sweet and have many seeds, which mostly are.
But, watermelon or other melon family ( bitter melon, which are excellent on soup and common in eastern asia; cantaloup) are a exception, since they are both ( vegetable and fruit)
2006-08-20 04:51:21 · answer #6 · answered by Ritsuko 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fruit.
2006-08-20 04:46:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's Fruit
2006-08-20 04:46:58 · answer #8 · answered by Nikita C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If having seeds on the inside makes it a fruit ...then peppers, cucumbers are fruit too?
2006-08-20 04:48:19 · answer #9 · answered by mid_mo_fencing 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Watermelon is a fruit because it has seeds. So is a tomato.
2006-08-20 04:47:14 · answer #10 · answered by Persephone 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fruit. My Grandfather raised watermelons for many years before he passed. Sweetest melons I've ever eaten! LOL :)
2006-08-20 04:47:46 · answer #11 · answered by rainbowbright 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋