• dan@upvote.au
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      1 year ago

      Strawberries and raspberries aren’t even berries but pumpkins are botanically speaking.

      The first time I read this, I thought you were saying that strawberries and raspberries are pumpkins. I was very confused.

    • ziggurat@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Names not fitting botanical definitions are due to the names being given before we (people) knew what we were talking about. DNA kind of came and shook things up, well even before that but what ever.

      Also pineapples are neither apples nor grow on pine trees. And in many European languages the word for orange mean apple from China. Example appelsin, where sin in this case comes frome Sina or China

    • FightMilk@discuss.online
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      1 year ago

      It depends on context, and I think most people realize this intuitively. If you put pumpkin in somebody’s berry smoothie they’re going to be pissed no matter what the scientific community says lol. It’s the kind of thing that only matters for trivia.

      And honestly science appropriated the term from common parlance, not the other way around. So a layperson could just as easily walk into a botany lab and say “fun fact, these actually are berries” and be completely correct.