Why isn't a seedless watermelon considered a fruit?

Question

I mean a vegetable?

Answer 1

The stock answer (since you added the correction "vegetable") is that things that grow above the ground and on trees are "fruits" and things that grow underground are vegetables (carrots, potatoes, etc.) But, most of us think of tomatoes and cucumbers as "vegetables" nowadays, so I don't think it matters much.

By the way, seedless watermelons are perhaps easier to eat, but if you want real rich watermelon taste, nothing beats a seeded watermelon. The Charleston Gray may be the best that there is. Try and find a seeded watermelon these days in the stores, however. Not likely.

Answer 2

Seedless watermelons are NOT seedless. Seedless watermelons just become ripe BEFORE the seeds develop so you can pick and eat them without dealing with the seeds. You can go buy a packet of seedless watermelon from Walmart, grow them and if you let them get too ripe they will have seeds.

Yes, they are still a watermellon fruit.

Answer 3

It's a fruit. whatever part normally produces the seed is the fruit. the vegetables are the edible roots, stems or leaves of a plant. there is also the botanical definition of fruit versus what the grocery store calls a fruit or a vegetable. the tomato is the fruit of the plant but we mostly consider it a vegetable.

Answer 4

It's as much a fruit as a seeded watermelon... it's just a hybrid

Answer 5

it is the same as a regular watermelon, except that is is a sterile hybrid( like crossing a horse and a donkey gives you a sterile mule). for some reason, some damn scientist says that it ain't (Pluto all over again)

Answer 6

Ask him this, "is a woman without ovaries, still considered a woman?" "Is a man that is infertile or has a zero sperm count still a man?"

Answer 7

it is a fruit isn't it?

Answer 8

it isn't?