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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 Midd
by 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 agoThis 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.