I wonder if in other romance languages is the same, in Spanish and Catalan the two definitions are distinguished by being masculine or feminine. Fruto/fruit being masculine is the botanical fruit and fruta/fruita is the culinary fruit.
How is it in other romance languages?
Almost, but not quite. Fruto and fruta are not two genders of the same word, but two different words, with different sources words (fruto fructus and fruta fructa)
Meanings are very similar, so there's a lot of mixup.
I don't see how the supreme court could do this!
Clearly brown cows produce chocolate milk, so why don't plants that GROW UPWARDS!!! Count as trees?!?!?!?
The american logic clearly follows a mysterious trend of some sorts...
Is there even a botanical definition of vegetables?
No. What is or isn't a vegetable is determined entirely by whether we collectively consider any given plant or plant part a food item.
wow whoever made this post is SO smart
They are vegetables
They are both, it's not contradictory
This is because "vegetable" is purely a culinary term. There's no botanical definition of a vegetable. Tomatoes are berries, which is a type of fruit, from a botanical standpoint. So are cucumbers. They're both vegetables from a culinary standpoint. Lettuce is a leaf. Broccoli is a flower. Carrots are roots. Celery is a stalk. All vegetables culinarily.
Ketchup lobby in full swing
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