Fruit or vegetable?

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  Tomato ✓ Right ✗ Wrong

  It develops from the plant's flower and holds dozens of seeds: it is a fruit, more precisely a berry. In 1893, the US Supreme Court nevertheless classed it as a vegetable, for tax purposes.

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  Avocado ✓ Right ✗ Wrong

  The avocado is a large berry with a single stone, which is its seed. Not very sweet, it is mostly eaten savoury, but it is indeed the fruit of the avocado tree, native to Mexico.

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  Courgette ✓ Right ✗ Wrong

  The courgette is the fruit of a plant from the squash family, picked before it is ripe. Its yellow flower is often still attached at the end, with soft seeds inside.

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  Cucumber ✓ Right ✗ Wrong

  Like the courgette, the cucumber is the fruit of a gourd plant: it grows from the flower and contains seeds. It is harvested before it is ripe, while its flesh is still crunchy.

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  Pepper ✓ Right ✗ Wrong

  Hollow and full of seeds, the sweet pepper is the fruit of a mild chilli plant. Green ones are picked unripe; they turn yellow, orange or red as they ripen on the plant.

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  Aubergine ✓ Right ✗ Wrong

  The aubergine is a berry from the nightshade family, like the tomato. Its small brown seeds, visible when you cut it open, give away its nature as a fruit.

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  Pumpkin ✓ Right ✗ Wrong

  Like all squashes, the pumpkin is a fruit: it forms after flowering and contains many seeds, which can be roasted as a snack.

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  Olive ✓ Right ✗ Wrong

  The olive is the fruit of the olive tree: a drupe, like the cherry or the plum, with a stone containing the seed. Raw, it is extremely bitter, which is why it is cured in brine.

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  Green bean ✓ Right ✗ Wrong

  The green bean is a pod picked young, with tiny seeds still inside. And the pod is the plant's fruit: so you are eating a whole fruit.

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  Okra ✓ Right ✗ Wrong

  Widely used in African, Caribbean and Southern US cooking, okra is an elongated capsule full of seeds: the fruit of a plant related to the hibiscus.