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Originally posted by gerbick
To be more exact, the old notion that Corn is indeed a vegetable is starting to wane. The current notion, for your information, is that the corn grain is actually more than a seed. It is a fruit where a fruit wall, called the pericarp, has taken over the function of the seed coat which doesn't develop. The storage tissue is endosperm, which genetically is distinct from the embryo. That is closer to the definition of a fruit than a vegetable.
And yes, my aforementioned degrees mean that the above paragraph probably makes more sense to me than you.