How is something classified as a fruit?

Question

How is something classified as a fruit?

Answer 1

if it has seeds

Answer 2

if it has a seed or the amount of seeds it has.

Answer 3

In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant. In many species, the fruit incorporates the ripened ovary and the surrounding tissues. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants disseminate seeds.

Answer 4

A fruit is the swollen ovary of a plant.

BTW to all seed people: bananas, avocados, and peaches have no seeds, and not for the reason posted above. We didn't clone them.

Answer 5

I beleive its the amount of seeds it has...

Answer 6

People who say only fruits have seeds:  You really can't think of a vegetable that has seeds?

Answer 7

yeah whether or not it has seeds and also how it's grown, like on a vine, or underground.

Answer 8

By the manner in which it speaks and uses its hands.

Answer 9

if it has seeds in it

but the banana is the acception because we selective breeded it to a point of no seeds and they all tase the same b/c they are CLONES

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Answer 10

I've read that as long as there are seeds in it, it's considered a fruit.