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There are a couple of different definitions of fruit: one is botanical, the other is culinary.

Culinary fruits are sweet, edible portions of plants.

Botanical fruits are parts of flowering plants that derive from specific tissues of the flower. They may or may not be sweet (zucchini, for example, are botanically fruits); they may not even be edible (osage orange).

Vegetable is not a botanical term, and is used generally to mean any edible portion of a plant that isn't sweet.

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