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.
halykthered@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
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EleventhHour@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I appreciate the skittles reference
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Is it a skittles reference or is it a reference to purple not being an actual color and thus not a part of the rainbow?
Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Seeing the creator writing “actually” instead of “oh yeah?”