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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  the definition of tree is literally just something that looks like a tree: a woody trunk with branches.

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  • Yondoza@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    TIL that trees are the same as vegetables and weeds, arbitrary cultural groupings. We should make an arbitrary cultural group name for arbitrary cultural grouped things!

    So far the group is: Trees Vegetables Weeds Pets Continents The culinary use of fruit

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    • Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I feel like sports could fit into that pretty well.

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    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fish

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    • Szyler@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Berries

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      • Yondoza@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think both of those have rigid scientific definitions.

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• lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Most won’t consider it a tree but who am I to judge

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  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Most are wrong then. If you can make toothpicks out of it, it’s a tree.

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    • flicker@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can make toothpicks out of anything if you’re willing to find a hard bit in it that can be sharpened or whittled.

      Holds up a chicken. Behold! A tree!

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So… Everything is a tree? 🤔

      Image

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    • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      bones are trees? o_o

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    • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nope, that’s not how the definition of a tree works. Look at swednek’s definition in the comments: it is a woody trunk with branches. There are many other plants you could make toothpicks out of (e.g. that are woody) that aren’t trees. For example, shrubs and lianas.

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