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  • btsax@reddthat.comtoScience Memes@mander.xyzA shrubbery!
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    3 days ago

    congrats on being the millionth person in this thread including the original artist to not know that words can have one meaning in a scientific context and another different meaning in a culinary context

    here’s some more that will blow your mind, peanuts aren’t nuts, peanut butter isn’t butter, starfish aren’t fish, wow much learn




  • btsax@reddthat.comtoScience Memes@mander.xyzA shrubbery!
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    4 days ago

    The other side of this coin is that the banana is the largest herb; the banana tree is the tallest plant that doesn’t produce wood

    Of course mixing up culinary and botany meanings deliberately is dumb and leads to people saying things like “a tomato is a fruit” and “a strawberry isn’t a berry” those people can go produce their own wood if you know what I mean