agalicktourq has opened a can of worms?

Question

I never thought of a potato as a vegetable and some people say it is a veggie, the dictionary says the potato is >>>the starchy tuber of a widely cultivated plant, eaten as a vegetable, this plant... My neighbor says a potato is a root...

Someone on my first question used the potato as a veggie. Do ya'll look at it as a veggie fruit or a root???
thank you agalicktourq for bringing up the point, I never thought of a potato as anything but something that goes great with steak!!!

Answer 1

A potato is a vegetable.

Potatos are tubers, and tubers are specialized stems, not roots.
A fruit is made from the ovary of a flower, so a potato cannot be a fruit. Fruits also contain the seeds, and that's not true for potatoes either.

Botanically speaking, vegetables are from parts of plants that are not the flowering reproductive parts.
Stems are vegetables: like the potato.
Roots are vegetables: like sweet potato, beet, carrot.
Leaves are vegetables: cabbage, lettuce, celery

Answer 2

omg this is a dumb question. it's like asking whether a stick is a branch or a twig. potatoes are obviously roots. if you don't believe me, go and look at one. The word vegetable refers to any part of the plant apart from its fruit, so the roots are covered! please don't ask me any more questions about what a potato is. this is the third one i have answered this week!

Answer 3

potato is a root your neighbor is right...