Crickets! wrote:
Anything that has a seed in it is defined as a fruit...me thinks. Cucumber
is a fruit.

According to Webster's:
Fruit
n. pl. fruit or fruits
The ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant, together with accessory parts, containing the seeds and occurring in a wide variety of forms.
The ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant, together with accessory
parts, containing the seeds and ocurring in a wide variety of forms
An edible, usually sweet and fleshy form of such a structure

--
Victor M. Martinez

http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv