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by jrhurst 2839 days ago
What is the scientific definition of a vegetable?
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Culinary: Edible part of a plan that is not, or does not contain seeds (i.e. not a fruit).

Biology/Botanology: does not exist. Only the definition of fruit is of interest. Thus something that a cook would call a vegetable are classified into finer categories (e.g. leaves, roots etc).