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sciamatic t1_iuc7dcc wrote

I'm gonna call bullshit on these sorts of things.

The definition of "berry" and "fruit" has existed for hundreds of years, and their lingual predecessors thousands of years.

I get that biology came along and found out that a tomato has more in common with an apple than it does lettuce, but clearly that doesn't change the definition of "fruit". It just means that science needs to come up with new words for these genetic and phenotypical groups. I don't care what they call them.

But a strawberry is a berry because that's what "berry" means. The fact that their seed distribution puts them in some other, science-based category as well doesn't really change that.

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