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[–] just2look@lemmy.zip 44 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't think vegetable is a botanical term. So fruit and vegetable aren't really mutually exclusive.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah I mean, mushrooms get lumped into the vegetable category most of the time and they're a fungus!

[–] match@pawb.social 18 points 1 month ago

and we usually eat the fruiting body!

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If my grandmother had wheels, she would be a bicycle. But she would also be my grandmother.

[–] stray@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But what if she had four wheels?

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

A roller skate obviously.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

had wheels

a bicycle

I suspect that your qualifications for what constitutes a bicycle are a tad short…