#“you both are incorrect. the acceleration of this object is changing therefore the suvat equations cannot be used.”

[youling-the-ghost]

Technically, it's both!

Botanically, the fruit is the ripened ovary of a plant that contains seeds. Technically the word "cucumber" also encompasses the vines on which the fruits grow, but it's used almost exclusively to refer to the fruit colliqually. If you want to get really specific with the pedantics, you can call the cucumber by its scientific name (cucumis sativus), but only nerds do that (/lh).

Meanwhile, a vegetable is defined as "a plant or part of a plant used as food, such as a cabbage, potato, carrot, or bean". So technically, all fruits are vegetables! The term "vegetable" actually has no set botanical definition, and it's mostly been used as a buzzword make something sound healthier (similar to the term "superfood" in a way). Here's an interesting video on the topic.

(this is totally not just a reason for me to promote Food Theory)

Weird conclusion, I know, but technically none of the boys are wrong! Unless they were arguing against it being a fruit and/or vegetable, in that case they were all horribly wrong.

watching a livestream and the guys just spent a whole two minutes arguing over wether a cucumber is a fruit or a vegetable I love these idiots