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• lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Who uses such a broad and meaningless definition? Are nuts also vegetables? What about rice, pasta, buckwheat? Herbs? What about plants that are edible but we don’t eat at all like many flowers? You can’t just use the first ad hoc definition you come up with as absolute proof.

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  • dadarobot@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    https://www.dictionary.com/browse/vegetable

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    • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice in the culinary sense, and usually including non-plants lumped into the same culinary category, such as edible mushrooms and seaweed.

      en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vegetable

      usually herbaceous plant (such as the cabbage, bean, or potato) grown for an edible part that is usually eaten as part of a meal

      www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vegetable

      it may include savoury fruits such as tomatoes and squash, flowers such as broccoli, and seeds such as pulses, but exclude foods derived from some plants that are fruits, flowers, nuts, and cereal grains.

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable

      I have never used dictionary.com but it’s so full of adds that it’s hard for me to take it seriously

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