Are Watermelon and Squash berries?

Question

I know that they both grow on vines , and in patches, like grapes, but does that make them berries? PLEASE ANSWER! this is important.

Answer 1

A watermelon is a fruit. 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 and a juicy, sweet, usually red or yellow interior flesh but sometimes orange. The flesh consists of highly developed placental tissue within the fruit. This fruit grows on a vine-like (climber and trailer) herb originally from southern Africa and one of the most common type of melon .

Squash is considered a Berry, with outer wall or rind formed from receptacle tissue fused to the exocarp; the Fleshy interior is composed of mesocarp and endocarp.

So:
Watermelon = Fruit (also considered a false berry)
Squash = Berry

Answer 2

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 and a juicy, sweet, usually red interior flesh.

Answer 3

I would say that a squash is the fruit of a plant, but I'm pretty sure from what I've heard that a watermelon is the ovary of a flower. Therefore, a squash could technically be considered a berry, while a watermelon could not.

Answer 4

Nope, not berries.

Answer 5

watermelon is a fruit.

squash is a gourd.

Answer 6

they are both fruits

Answer 7

No, No, No