• Morlark@feddit.uk
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    10 hours ago

    But a tomato isn’t even an actual fruit…

    “Actual” refers to the ordinary “plain English” meaning. Under the “plain English” definition, i.e. non-technical, non-domain-specific, a tomato is a vegetable.

    It’s a botanical fruit, but an actual vegetable.