fruit or vegetable?
2006-10-07 04:49:32 · 11 answers · asked by sandolina 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Vegetable
Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus, Family Cucurbitaceae) is actually a vegetable 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 vegetable, 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 but sometimes orange. The species descriptor Citrullus vulgaris is sometimes, synonymously, used to refer to this plant (vulgaris meaning "common" — Shosteck, 1974).
2006-10-07 04:52:42 · answer #1 · answered by leavemealonestalker 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Fruit
2006-10-07 11:51:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Vegetable
2006-10-07 12:05:24 · answer #3 · answered by Simon 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A wonderful fruit!
2006-10-07 11:59:29 · answer #4 · answered by mom of girls 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fruit...of course!
2006-10-07 11:51:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's a sweet,seedy,delicious fruit.
2006-10-07 12:15:00 · answer #6 · answered by dervin 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I count it as a fruit, a very tasty one.
2006-10-07 12:35:36 · answer #7 · answered by Classy Granny 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
IT is a fruit.
2006-10-07 11:51:23 · answer #8 · answered by sonpan 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
fruits because it has seeds
2006-10-07 11:50:50 · answer #9 · answered by ╣♥╠ 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
fruit..yummy lol
2006-10-07 11:52:49 · answer #10 · answered by Yasmin 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋