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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did a banana plant kill your family or something? This is the silliest hill to die on I've ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They could have said something like, "A banana tree has a large herbaceous-modified corm," but it didn't. It was unclear.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It said it was a herb because in botanical terms it's a herb. That's not unclear. Even if you confuse it with the culinary term, all you have to do is google "herb definition" and the one of the two definitions provided is:

any seed-bearing plant that does not have a woody stem and dies down to the ground after flowering.

And the example given is:

"the banana plant is the world's largest herb"