@br0kenrabbit: Fruits are a type of vegetable. Do some research:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/vegetable
1. Any plant whose fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food, as the tomato, bean, beet, potato, onion, asparagus, spinach, or couliflower
No, fruit and vegetables have a distinct difference, but all fruit plants also have vegetables parts (leaves, stems, etc). What we're talking about is the edible part. A fruit is the fertilized, mature flowering part of the plant.
Also, fruits want you to eat them, vegetables don't. Fruit seeds are surrounded by the pericarp which forms from the ovary. It's the pericarp from which you derive sustenance, not the seeds. The fruit wants to be eaten so you poop out its seeds.
Vegetables on the other hand, you're actually digesting the seeds.
Another definition of the word vegetable clarifying that fruits are vegetables:
A plant or part of a plant used as food,
Fruits are a distinct type of vegetable but, according to the actual definition of the word, they are vegetables.
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