Are fruits also vegetables?

Question

If a vegetable is an edible part of a plant, all edible fruits should be both fruits and vegetables. Do you agree(why)?

Answer 1

Vegetable is the stem, root, or leaf of a plant, the non-reproductive parts in the botanical sense. Vegetative means nonsexual. Fruits develop from the ovary in the base of the flower, and contain the seeds of the plant. Fruit is the sexual portion of the plant. Without this we would not be able to use the analogy that to bear fruit is to produce successful results. This is based on the idea that getting results is like getting fruit from a plant. With no difference between the fruit and the plant, since they are all vegetables, we consolidate into one meaning and we lose the explicit details needed to communicate accurately.

The specific sense of "a plant cultivated for food, edible herb or root" is what you mean. But this word derives from words for "green" or "growing" like Italian & Spanish’s verdura so this definition still leaves the fruit to their own class.

Only in actual cooking where the carbohydrate to sugar ratio is high do fruit come to be called vegetables when used in savory dishes. Though even this is not true for all cultures.

But if you wish to call plums and apples vegetables there is no reason not to so long as you explain your meaning. Just remember "Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument."
Voltaire

Answer 2

A vegetable is a root, stem, or leaf of a plant while a fruit is anything that comes out of an ovule of a flower. So plants that reproduce could have an outcome of either a fruit or a vegetable. :]

Answer 3

No, fruits are not vegetable. The difference between both are that vegetable has roots but fruits has trees.