Not really a great article because it mostly perpetuates the confusion rather than clears it up. Context determines whether a strawberry is a berry or not. In

Not really a great article because it mostly perpetuates the confusion rather than clears it up. Context determines whether a strawberry is a berry or not. In common usage it is. Using a scientific horticultural definition it is not. Context usually determines which definition of berry applies implicitly, though if you're communicating in a context where you think it's reasonably ambiguous, you can be explicitly about which definition you're using.