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Originally Posted by Rita C
It's just that all squash and cucumbers are also "fruit" like tomatoes are "fruit". Which is why his sentence and analogy doesn't work.
And while we are at it, the whole idea that tomatoes are fruit came from a customs or tarif designation. It was never botanical.
Rita
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From my high school biology teacher: if there's a seed, it's a fruit. It doesn't have to be edible. That "helicopter business" (he was referring to maple tree seeds, for example), --> fruit.