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> Vegetables are edible parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. This original meaning is still commonly used

Well, the Wikipedia author who wrote this is clearly mistaken here. Sweet fruits like grapes are rarely called vegetables, so this definition uncommon, not common.



Good thing its not the Wikipedia but the dictionary definition then.




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