@Background Pony #6407
You can’t live without killing; just by existing your immune system is committing genocide on millions of microscopic life forms every day.

@choosewisely  
There’s a funny answer for this because cucumbers (and the other foods I brought up earlier like pumpkins and tomatoes) are kinda both in a sense. Botanically they’re considered fruits but culinary they’re considered vegetables.
 

 
@Meanlucario  
@Meanlucario  
The old meaning of vegetables referred to all parts of a plant that was edible: flowers, leaves, stems, roots, seeds, and yes even the fruit.
 
But to quote good ol’ Wikipedia, it delves into the differences between fruits and vegetables a bit:
 

Many common terms for seeds and fruit do not correspond to the botanical classifications. In culinary terminology, a fruit is usually any sweet-tasting plant part, especially a botanical fruit; a nut is any hard, oily, and shelled plant product; and a vegetable is any savory or less sweet plant product. However, in botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary or carpel that contains seeds, a nut is a type of fruit and not a seed, and a seed is a ripened ovule.