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Vegetables don’t exist. It’s a culinary word which does not exist in botany. It describes an enormous umbrella of fruits, roots, leaves, stems, flowers, and seeds.

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gigachad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Exactly. Botanically cucumbers are berries, just like bananas which makes much more sense.

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FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Fruit don’t exist. It is a botanical word describing seed bearing structures of flowering plants.

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- JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  What ? I’ve study botany and the term fruit is used extensively.
  
  A fruit is the heterozygotic offspring of the parent plant. A seed is the male zygote, with the female zygote being pollen. So “seed” oils are made from fruit, just like olive oil.
  
  A tuber (potato) or rhyzome (ginger) is a homozygotic offspring. A vegetable is a part of the plant that is not the offspring, like the leaves, stem or root.
  
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  - FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    I’ve study botany and the term fruit is used extensively.
    
    …Yes?
    
    you should probably read my comment again
    
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