• LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    That’s interesting.

    It’s like how peanuts are legumes and not nuts. But I feel like that makes sense because of the pods.

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      12 days ago

      Yeah and they grow in the ground too.

      A distinction that I find more entertaining than the fruit/veggie one is the berry category.

      • blueberry: not a berry
      • blackberry: nuh-uh
      • Strawberry: you’re an accessory fruit
      • banana: yup, totally a berry
      • watermelon: go for it

      That’s nuts

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          12 days ago

          These rules are made by botanists.

          A berry is a fleshy fruit without a pit produced by a single flower containing a single ovary.

          This definition is different from the colloquial culinary one which refers to anything small, growing on a small plant or bush and without a pit.