are green beans a fruit or a vegetable? (they grow above ground)
Found the answer - good work MS - looks like those exams have given your brain a thorough workout. I always thought the difference was meant to be one grows above ground and the other below. Heres the answer:
A fruit is actually the sweet, ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant. A vegetable, in contrast, is an herbaceous plant cultivated for an edible part (seeds, roots, stems, leaves, bulbs, tubers, or nonsweet fruits). So, to be really nitpicky, a fruit could be a vegetable, but a vegetable could not be a fruit.
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