For a moment, I thought Wirt had laid to rest the question of whether a
tomato is or isn't a fruit.  Unfortunately, using the "fruit is ... the
ripened ovary of a plant" definition, I would have to classify corn and peas
as fruit. ?!?!  It might be technically correct, but I won't bother trying
to convince my teenagers that a box of mixed vegetables is really mixed
fruits and vegetables.  They'd think I'd gone nutty (or is that fruity?).
Ah well, common usage is often at odds with technical correctness.

--Brent (glad it's Friday and nothing more urgent to ponder)

PS: I have to admit I am one of the 98% who immediately answered 7 and
carrot.

Wirt succulently and succinctly writ:
> thus broccoli is
> a vegetable, and so is an oak tree. On the other hand, a
> fruit is just a part
> of the plant: the ripened ovary of a plant (generally
> containing seeds, except
> as we previously discussed, under the conditions of parthenocarpy &
> parthenocony :-). Avocados, tomatos, acorns, pine cones, and
> bermuda grass
> seeds are all fruits. Potatoes (edible tubers), carrots
> (edible roots) and
> other roots and tubers are not fruits, but they are
> vegetables, or are at
> least parts of the vegetable.