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Is zucchini a fruit or vegetable?

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Botanically it is a fruit. In common and culinary usage, it is a vegetable.

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Is a zucchini a vegetable or a fruit?
Although widely considered a vegetable, zucchinis come from flowers and are therefore technically fruits.
What makes a fruit a fruit and a vegetable a vegetable?
Fruits always have seeds and never grow underground while some vegetables dont have seeds and grow underground sometimes. By not having seeds I mean on the inside of the vegetables...pretty sure...
Why is a vegetable a vegetable and a fruit a fruit?
Because it likes dogs.
Is a vegetable a fruit or a vegetable?
A vegetable can be edible seeds, roots, stems, leaves, bulbs, tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant. A fruit is the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant.
Is zucchini a vegetable?
A Zucchini is an immature Vegetable Marrow so is a fruit, but it is normally used as a vegetable.