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The confusion about 'fruit' and 'vegetable' arises because of the differences in usage between scientists and cooks. ... Is a banana a fruit or a herb?; Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?; Is the letter Y a vowel or a consonant?; Silent h; What does the abbreviation q.v. mean?; What is the 'Oxford comma'?;
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www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutother/tomato
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To really figure out if a tomato is a fruit or vegetable, you need to know what makes a fruit a fruit, and a vegetable a vegetable. The big question to ask is, DOES IT HAVE SEEDS? If the answer is This, of course, makes your tomato a fruit. It also makes cucumbers, squash, green beans and walnuts all fruits as well.
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www.sciencebob.com/questions/q-tomato_fruit_vegetable.p...
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You know they are delicious, but are tomatoes a fruit or a vegetable? Check out this article to learn what a tomato is legally considered. ... In 1887, the tomato reached the U.S. Supreme Court. The ruling? Vegetable. So legally, it seems, the tomato is not a fruit. Click here to learn more.
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recipes.howstuffworks.com/fresh-ideas/dinner-food-facts...
recipes.howstuffworks.com/fresh-ideas/dinner-food-facts/tomato.htm
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it is a fruit. what vegetable has seeds? but by law, they are vegetables. i don't know how, but there were too many fusses about whether tomatoes are fruits or vegetable. Tomatoes will eat bannanas if harmed by a bannana.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_tomatoe_a_fruit
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Tomato - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum , syn. Lycopersicon lycopersicum & Lycopersicon esculentum ) is a herbaceous, usually sprawling plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family that is typically...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato
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The confusion about 'fruit' and 'vegetable' arises because of the differences in usage between scientists and cooks. Scientifically speaking, a tomato is definitely a fruit. True fruits are developed from the ovary in the base of the flower...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090511153...
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Botanically speaking, the tomato is a fruit and is classified as a berry. It is a fruit because it is a ripened mature ovary containing seed. One can confirm this by looking up both "fruit" and "tomato" in a dictionary.
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kdcomm.net/~tomato/debate.htm
kdcomm.net/~tomato/debate.htm
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Produce Oasis Tip of the Day - Is the Tomato a Fruit or Vegetable? ... In 1893 , the Supreme Court ruled that the tomato must be considered a vegetable, even though, botanically, it is a fruit. Because vegetables and fruits were subject to different import duties, it was necessary to define it as one or the other.
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The tomato though commonly classified as a vegetable is really a fruit, a berry in fact. Tomato fruits exibit all of the common characteristics of berries. The fruit develops from the ovary of the flower. The tomato is fleshy due to the pericarp walls and skin. ... transverse section of five locule tomato fruit...
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sanangelo.tamu.edu/agronomy/tomato/anat.html
sanangelo.tamu.edu/agronomy/tomato/anat.html
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