Fruit vs vegetables

[Cherries]

I know there have been similar, inconclusive, discussions before, but can someone give a simple definintion of the difference between a fruit and a vegetable. I thought it was that fruit have seeds on the inside, but I'm confused by strawberries.

[boobesque]

the little black dots on the skin of strawberries are the seeds.

[Scarlett]

A fruit is the ripened ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant.It is the part of a plant that grows where a flower used to be, after the flower was pollinated and died. The fruit contains the seeds, which can grow new plants.

Whereas a vegetable is the edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers. There are always exceptions to the rule though, and generally, fruits tend to be sweet.

[kempie]

The strawberry is not a true fruit, but is termed a pseudocarp.

As explained by boobesque, the 'little black dots' (named achenes) are small, dry, single seeds and are the true fruit.