"Vegetable" isn't a botanical word, but it's culinary. The term "fruit" is both botanical and culinary. A fruit can be considered a vegetable or a culinary "fruit".

Correct. Also, avocados are vegetables:

> 2. A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, or spice in the culinary sense.

> 3. The edible part of such a plant.

The culinary sense of fruit referred to above is:

> a sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary

Note that avocados are not sweet, so they are not fruit in the culinary sense, and therefore are vegetables in the culinary sense.

If we're being pedantic here, it's botanically a fruit, but botanical fruits that we interact with in common parlance as vegetables are often considered vegetables legally.

At least in the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden

I love the argument about labels in the comments of an article that is arguing about labels.