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[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 year ago

Also biologists: "vegetable" is purely a culinary term, and doesn't have any significance in the world of botany

[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 year ago

As it happens, when we go shopping for food we have more of a culinary mindset than botanical.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

A vegetable is edible plant matter.

Botanically a vegetable is anything that is not the reproductive portion of the plant derived from a flower. A root or tuber such as for yam or potato are vegetables. Edible flowers could be considered a vegetable since the ovary has not expanded to contain seed.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
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