• Doomsider@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      I love this debate and I think you hit the nail on the head with your last two statements.

      A vegetable is a culinary term not a scientific one. Fruit is both a scientific term meaning the ripened ovary (calm down people) of a flowering plant that holds seeds and a culinary term as plant parts that are sweet.