Comment on Honestly Bizarre

FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The definition strictly is “fruiting body”, that their flower head goes through a process of becoming a fruiting body

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• geissi@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  if it has seeds (in nature) then it was a fruit, otherwise it was a vegetable

  Many vegetables have seeds.
  Pumpkins are already in the example, but think peppers, legumes

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  • FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I would still consider those fruits tbh, but yea they do draw the line

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    • SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The thing is fruit/vegetable is not a category in botany. Fruit exists, and it kinda has that definition, that it carries seeds, but that doesn’t serve to distinguish it from vegetables.

      Fruit/vegetable is a culinary distinction, rather than a scientific one.

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      • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        And this is the whole point of the controversy: The same word can have multiple meanings in different contexts and some people have trouble with that concept.

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