LOCAL CROSSWORDD

[dicmor]

Which of the following is NOT a fruit (a) TOMATO or (b) PEPPER

[grasscarp]

pepper.
Botanically, a tomato is a fruit: the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant.

[dicmor]

Thank you grasscarp - appreciated
Dick

[chelle7272]

Wouldn't the pepper be described the same way?

[Euphemia]

I think they are both fruit

[grasscarp]

You are right Chelle, though I immediately thought of tomato. Perhaps the setter of the crossword didnt realise they both are. I think tomato is probably better known, and it is possible to bite into like a fruit, though you would never do that with a pepper.

[Calibax]

They're both fruit.
Tomato definitely a fruit.
Pepper, whether you mean Capsicum (bell peppers eaten as veg) or peppercorns (ground and sprinkled on food as white or black pepper) are both botanically fruit.

[chelle7272]

Thanks grasscarp, I as pretty sure they were both fruit, the question really puzzled me!

[boxtops]

It would be the same if it said "which is not a vegetable" - then I would have said that a tomato IS a fruit.

[Euphemia]

So is the crossword answer "neither"?

[chelle7272]

lol euphemia, yes I didn't think of that

[dicmor]

Thank you all very much - I have lumped forPEPPER!!!!!