answer:The word “fruit” is scientific/technical. The word “vegetable” is not. There are multiple ways of defining a “vegetable”. One way of defining it is any edible part of a plant that is not the fruit. In other words: seeds, flowers, leaves, stems, roots, etc. Everything except the fruit of the plant, which is a developed ovary containing the seeds, a true biological part of a plant. Another definition of a vegetable is a “culinary vegetable” which includes edible non-fruit parts of a plant and includes non-sweet fruits like tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, etc. and even things like mushrooms, which are not plants.