Serene wrote:

Victor Sack wrote:

One... okay, maybe two... questions:

Is a fruit of a vegetable a fruit or a vegetable? Both? ;-P

The fruit and the vegetable(s) are different parts of the plant.
Some plants have edible fruit and vegetable parts -- for instance,
the flower of a zucchini (courgette) is edible, and it's a
vegetable. The fruit is the long green thing most people think of
when they think of eating the plant.

I would phrase it differently. A plant raised for food is a vegetable
and every vegetable consists of roots, stems, stalks, branches, leaves,
flowers and fruit. So, paraphrasing Jeffrey Steingarten, asking
whether, say, a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable is akin to asking
whether that large gray wrinkled tube over there is a trunk or an
elephant.

Victor