What is a vegetable
Ozhegova dictionary defines vegetables as grow on the ridges of roots, bulbs, leaves and some other plants and their fruits. If to speak more succinctly – is the edible part of the plant that grows on earth and is not a grass, fruit, grain, nut or spice.
All the vegetables can be divided into several groups. The first group includes root vegetables. It is well-known carrots, beets, radishes, horseradish, etc. To the second – tubers – potatoes, Jerusalem artichokes, sweet potato (sweet potato). The third group consists of onion – garlic, onions, leeks, shallots, garlic and others. The fourth group – cabbage – include all varieties of cabbage (white, Savoy, Beijing, China – up to 50 species), rapeseed, mustard and highly valued by fans of Japanese cuisine wasabi. The fifth group – the tomato. Reckon it tomato, pepper, eggplant. The sixth group – legumes – includes beans, peas, chickpeas, soybeans, peanuts, lentils. Representatives of the last of the seventh group pumpkin are pumpkin, cucumbers, zucchini, squash.
What fruits and berries
From Latin "fruit" means "fruit". Therefore, the term "fruit" in botany is missing – instead using the term "fetus". Under the fruit of the biologists understand the succulent organs of plants (not necessarily edible) that appear after the flower plants are gone, and in its place was formed the ovary. A distinctive feature is the presence of fruit seeds, whether large or small, hard or soft. The above characteristics have a number of vegetables – cucumbers, tomatoes, peas and nuts. Fruits are divided into pome fruits (apples, pears), stone fruit (peaches, apricots), citrus fruits (oranges, tangerines, lemons), sub-tropical and tropical (mango, avocado, pineapple, banana) and cucurbit (watermelon, melon).
Berry in understanding nerds is a kind of fruit that contains many seeds. Based on this criterion, the berries can be ranked currants, banana, watermelon, tomato, gooseberry, kiwi and even potatoes. But strawberries, strawberries and rose hips are considered specialists about the berries as participation in blagorazumie takes not only the ovary but also the thalamus – the lower part of the flower, which is located on the sepals, petals, stamens and pistil.
Distinctive vegetables, fruits and berries
After analyzing the above, we can derive several fundamental differences between a vegetable and a fruit. The first – fruits represent any part of the plant, and the fruit – his fruit. Second, the fruit always contains seeds that can germinate, thus giving life to a new plant. Vegetable is the same – it is only part of the plant, which is absolutely not able to reproduce itself. Third – fruit grow on plants with hard or soft stem, these vegetables are herbaceous plants. Fourth – fruit and berries vary the size and number of seeds.