minus-squareV0lD@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•Average TS developerlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-210 months agoBotanically they are. Culinary they are not. Some languages split the word “fruit” up in those two cases. In Dutch for example, the botanical definition of fruit translates to “vrucht” whereas the culinary definition translates to “fruit”. So, a tomato is a “vrucht” but it’s not “fruit” linkfedilink
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minus-squareV0lD@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Israel's siege of Gaza is illegal, EU sayslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down8·11 months agoIt’s so easy to blame the British empire for any geopolitical mistake isn’t it? linkfedilink
Botanically they are. Culinary they are not.
Some languages split the word “fruit” up in those two cases. In Dutch for example, the botanical definition of fruit translates to “vrucht” whereas the culinary definition translates to “fruit”.
So, a tomato is a “vrucht” but it’s not “fruit”