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And of course the technical definition supersedes the use of the word "berry" in the English language...

• Koshkin 7y ago
  Forget about English - > you may start to question reality
• darkwater 7y ago
  In botanic this may only apply to Latin, and even in this case it would be stretched IMO. But taking English as the only reference point is a bit imperialistic to say the least.
• edflsafoiewq 7y ago
  I'm curious how the botanical definition came about. I believe "berry" comes from a word that means "grape" (which are berries in the botanical sense). In Middle English, everything that wasn't a berry was an "apple". A banana was an appel of paradis, apple of paradise.
  • yesbabyyes 7y ago
    This still lives on; in Swedish for instance, orange is apelsin, which comes from "apple from China". Pomegranate comes from "pomme", French for apple, and "granatum" meaning it has many seeds (grenade actually comes from the fruit, because it looks like one). Potatoes are "pommes du terre" in French, meaning "earth apples", and French fries are "pommes frites", fried apples. Or just freedom fries.
• Digit-Al 7y ago
  The problem is that the people who name things don't always have enough knowledge to name them properly. And once a name has stuck, even if it's technically incorrect, it ain't gonna change.
  • stan_rogers 7y ago
    And sometimes the technical crowd gets a little bit carried away when they narrow definitions. For instance, although its name was the very origin of the term, Stonehenge no longer qualifies as a henge.