help my wife and I are arguing. I say that a lemon is a fruit and she says it is a berry who right?

Answer 1

The wife is always right!

Happy wife - happy life!

Answer 2

You both happen to be right. Berries are fruit too. I can't believe that you couldnt figure that out on your own.

"The fruit of citrus, such as the orange, kumquat and lemon, is a modified berry called a hesperidium."

Also, just a bit of trivia a tomato is also a berry and a fruit.

Answer 3

A Berry is a fruit but so is a lemon.
Berry:
Botany An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary and having the whole wall fleshy, such as the grape or tomato.
A small, juicy, fleshy fruit, such as a blackberry or raspberry, regardless of its botanical structure.

Fruit:The ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant, together with accessory parts, containing the seeds and occurring in a wide variety of forms.
An edible, usually sweet and fleshy form of such a structure.
A part or an amount of such a plant product, served as food: fruit for dessert.

Answer 4

Um, berries are fruit but a lemon certainly is not a berry. For all intents and purposes it is classified as a fruit. Your wife doesn't sound so smart.

Answer 5

a lemon is a fruit and so is a berry - now that that is out of the way the way to prove its a fruit and not a berry is you buy a lemon not a bunch of lemons, EX: do you buy *A* raspberry or a bunch?

Answer 6

FRUIT!.
berries are cranberries, blueberries, strawberries,cherries,

check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon
(deffinition of fruit: In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant. In many species, the fruit incorporates the ripened ovary and surrounding tissues. )
(deffinition of berry: The term berry, in common parlance and in cuisine, refers generically to any small, edible fruit with multiple seeds. Aggregate fruits such as the blackberry, the raspberry, and the boysenberry are also berries in this sense, but not the botanical.

These fruits tend to be small, sweet, juicy, and of a bright color contrasting with their background to make them more attractive to animals that eat them, thus dispersing the seeds of the plant.

As berry colors derive from natural pigments synthesized by the plant, a special field of health research[1] has focused on the anti-disease properties of pigmented polyphenols, such as flavonoids, anthocyanins, and tannins among other phytochemicals localized mainly in berry peels (skins) and seeds. Related to the biological properties of berry pigments is antioxidant ability for which berries are notable due to their relatively high oxygen radical absorbance )

Answer 7

berries are fruits, but a lemon is not a berry. It's more like an orange.

Answer 8

The lemon (Citrus × limon) is a hybrid in cultivated wild plants. It is the common name for the reproductive tissue surrounding the seed of the angiosperm lemon tree. The fruit is used primarily for its juice, though the pulp and rind (zest) are also used, primarily in cooking and baking. Lemon juice is about 5% acid, which gives lemons a tart taste, and a pH of 2 to 3. This makes lemon juice an inexpensive, readily available acid for use in educational science experiments.

See more information than u needed! lol

Answer 9

Just like Limes, Oranges, Grapefruits, Lemons are fruit. These are all types of citrus fruit also. :o)

Answer 10

a berry is a type of fruit

Answer 11

Technically a berry is a fruit. So if it was a berry, you'd both be right. But it isn't a berry.