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[–] xantoxis 78 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

This feels like a case where botanical science should just have picked a different name. If you invalidate everything people think of as a berry and then tell them a dozen things that are clearly not berries are, in fact, berries, you're just making the word berry meaningless.

Berry means a tiny, usually sweet, fruit-like growth from a plant. The kind that is usually picked in bunches. The kind that you use to make smoothies. That's a berry.

Botany did us all a disservice by choosing the word "berry" to mean "a specific thing which invalidates everything you think is a berry." Just call that plant structure something in Latin, ffs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

[–] xantoxis 2 points 1 month ago

Knowledge is knowing the common definition of fruit doesn't include tomato.

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