Corn is not a vegetable .

I assume this is introductions. Hi I am Sterling. BoP is on the Affirmative because you must prove that Corn is not a vegtable.
Definitions:
Vegetable: a plant or part of a plant used as food, such as a cabbage, potato, turnip, or bean
Oxford Dictionary
My argument will be based on the fact corn is a vegetable because it is used as food. For example a tomato is a vegetable but it is also a fruit. Vegetable is not biologically correct term it is in fact not really a term that can be used to apply biology because a fruit;
Fruit: the sweet and fleshy product of a tree or other plant that contains seed and can be eaten as food
Oxford dictionary
Corn maybe a fruit and a vegetable because if it is edible(and a plant) it is considered a vegetable.

You have contradicted yourself in this debate. All of the sources you put forward say it is fruit and you are arguing against your own evidence. Also we have remember that I only I have to put reasonable doubt that Corn maybe a vegetable. Also my opponent has contradicted his own sources and he has yet to address my contention that Corn is in fact a fruit and vegetable both. We have to remember that people were contradicted for year on the tomato issue with many people but as mentioned in the book Biological and Elementary chemistry "most often when considering [vegetables] and [fruits] the fundamental difference is in the way they are used because in biology, [vegetables] are really nonexistent they are plants so the only way to tell the difference in fundamental..." he goes on to talk about the different varieties of vegetables but you get the idea, he also claims that Corn "is indeed a vegetable". My opponents case is self-contradictory and doesn't have a basis in biology we can conclude that there can only be a Neg. vote today.

I did not contradict myself. Corn is a fruit and a grain. I never said it wasn't a fruit. All grains are a type of fruit, as stated in my last round. Vegetables are never fruit, as also stated in my last round.

The confusion between vegetable and fruit occur when fruit have the nutritional value of vegetables. This same reasoning labels peanuts as meat, and soy as dairy.

Corn is a warm season cereal grain, like millet, fonio, sorghum, and job's tears.

Because corn is a grain, you can pop it, you can turn it into bread, and you can make corn flakes cereal.

Corn is also the most widely used feed grain. Corn accounts for 90% of all feed grain production.

http://www.ers.usda.gov...

My opponent is making a hasty case he is saying that one a vegetable cannot be a fruit, two all Grains are fruit, and three that if the former are true then Corn cannot be a vegetable. But because of the definitions I have provided and the Authoritive evidence from the book "Biological and Elementary chemistry" . Corn is still a plant and being a that we eat, makes it by definition a vegetable. Also the statement that Corn is a grain and fruit is irrelvant in this argument truely only his first contention is important because only if (as he claims) a Corn is truely only a fruit then can he win this debate. Another thing he says is that Corn is a grain and a fruit but he DID NOT say in his second argument that this is always so as he claims. But we can question many things in his argument. One thing is that he has a notion that if a fruit cannot be vegetable, this is untrue. My opponent contends nutritional value has nothing to due with whether a Corn is a fruit/grain or vegetable but we must realize that they were the first people to come up with the term vegetable. Also we must also realize that my opponent has only meet the BoP that Corn is a grain and a fruit. He has done little to no contending on the issue of whether or not Corn is a vegetable.
My opponent in order to win this debate must show that Corn is indeed not a vegetable. Thank you.

I would like to address the fact that this argument my opponent makes is not based in horticulture but in biology. So consider this, is the fruit apart of the plant if it is I win this debate. This clear from my contentions and My opponent has STILL only shown us that Corn is a grain and a fruit or a dry fruit as he likes to call it. Notice how he says parts of a plant, so what he argues is that Corn cannot be a plant because it is part of a plant but this is evidently wrong so inorder for my opponent to have won this debate he should have show us that Maize, not just Corn in of itself being established as part of this debate in the last sentence, was not a vegetable. Horticulture is not a science. Biology would be the correct basis for this debate.

Voters;
My opponent has not meet the BoP. He has not scratched my contention that Corn can be a fruit, vegetable, and grain. For these reasons there can be no vote but the Neg. today!