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is a mushroom a vegetable?

Can anyone tell me if a mushroom is a vegetable or not because I say it is but someone else says it isnt. Please settle this argument.

fabemmy Sat 10/05/08 14:06

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tiggerblue10
Sat 10/05/08
14:07

It is neither. It is a fungus.

Clanad
Sat 10/05/08
15:48

Of course, tiggerblue is correct to the extent that the word "vegetable" isn't a class of life... it's a culinary or shopping term... at present there are five Kingdoms of life; Animalia, which is made up of animals; Plantae, which is made up of plants; Protista, which is made up of protists (single-celled creatures invisible to the human eye); Fungi, which is made up of mushrooms, mold, yeast, lichen, etc; and Monera, which is made up of the three types of bacteria. (For this discussion, we'll ignore the controversial archaebacteria".
Mushrooms are fungal in origin and as such cannot describe "vegetable", however one could correctly state "I bought vegetables today... lettuce, carrots and mushrooms..."
In my opinion...

cado
Sat 10/05/08
16:26

mushroom is a delicious, fragile fungus.

Brooksy
Sat 10/05/08
21:39

nice one, noknowledge!

frankofile
Sat 10/05/08
21:48

If eveything is animal, vegetable or mineral (does that date me?) they are not animal or mineral. Problem solved!

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