Bro if you are going to throw shade, at least have the cajones to @ me.

I’ve taught first year botany and have a BSc in Botany.

This exact debate happening here is literally an exercise we do in the very first lab with first year botany students to highlight this exact issue: that there are differences in the technical use of language and the common use of language.

And the specific example we use? Guess what. Its “tree”. We literally run undergraduates through the exercise of attempting to define the word “tree” to show them the difference between technical and scientific uses of language and how we might colloquially discuss things.