What makes a fruit a fruit and a vegatable a vegatable?

Fruits are the part of the plant that carries (or is) the seeds.

Vegetables are basically any other part of the plant (flower, stem, leaf....)

Yes, there are vegetables (like tomatoes) that are classified as vegetables in like cooking but in the above scientific definition they are fruits. They are called fruit vegetables (lol).

Fruit- "the edible part of a plant developed from a flower, with any accessory tissues, as the peach, mulberry, or banana."

Vegetable- "1. any plant whose fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food, as the tomato, bean, beet, potato, onion, asparagus, spinach, or cauliflower.

2. the edible part of such a plant, as the tuber of the potato.

3. any member of the vegetable kingdom; plant."

There are the quoted definitions to prove it!

A fruit is the matured ovary of a flower, containing the seed. After fertilization takes place and the embryo (plantlet) has begun to develop, the surrounding ovule becomes the fruit.

A vegetable is considered to be edible roots, tubers, stems, leaves, fruits, seeds, flower clusters, and other softer plant parts.

Fruit has seeds and its function is reproduction. Being from the ground or being a vine or whatever has nothing to do with discerning between a veggie and a fruit.

you can eat all the fruits raw. but the vegetables you have to cook most of them.

Fruits have seeds and vegetables don't.

fruits = seeds

vegetables = no seeds

so technically, tomatoes and cucumbers and fruit