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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 it something in latin ffs.

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JayObey711@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Well cooking terms and botany terms are not the same. Any non reproductive part of a plant is vegetable. But in cooking we have a completely different idea of what vegetables are. This really doesn’t matter because most people are not botanists and those who are probably know the terms. The only people that care are quirky internet people with debates about weather or not potato salad should be considered a cake or something.

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- Allero@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  “Weather” is a nice ultimate touch
  
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BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
They did. It’s Baca. Which means berry. Or maybe cow. Naming stuff is hard

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- ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Naming would be easier if we collectively review the names every few years.
  
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CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

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- xantoxis@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Knowledge is knowing the common definition of fruit doesn’t include tomato.
  
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