Green beans are technically fruits
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Does green apple count? It feels like an adjective but considering there's "green apple" flavored candy, I'd consider it a part of the noun.
I think the name for that variety is Granny Smith. The reason why it isn't called "Granny-Smith-flavored candy" will be left as an exercise for the reader.
I mean, orange was right there...
Which is a colour named after the fruit iirc
It is! We could use redcurrants, blackcurrants, and blackberries though
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Engagement bait.
right on. this tweet is like saying "there's not a single country in africa that starts with the letter K." there obviously is, but it's targeting people who are knowledgable enough to know the answer but not intelligent enough to understand the point of the tweet.
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This is how you do engagement bait
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Just a little fun fact: the color was actually named after the fruit and not the other way around :D
“The word "orange" came into English from the Old French "pomme d'orenge", which referred to the fruit.”
There are still blackberries though…
I think this might have been a joke abstracted to allude to that, without falling for the trap. Oranges were not named after the color, the color was named after the fruit.
But aren't oranges actually green?
*Not a joke, btw. Oranges grown in tropical places are green.
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Orange, cherry, blackberry, etc.
I'm pretty sure orange and cherry are named after the fruit, but Blackberry is true.
Nah it's inspired from the phone
Nah that's apples
That tracks. Steve Jobs was known for his enjoyment of fruit, to a potentially problematic degree.
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Pendants will argue that black is not a colour
Physicists might argue that, but black is a color linguistically and in common usage; I'd argue that since OP was generally speaking in a linguistic context, linguistic rules override physics pedantry.
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One might ask Crayola.
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The source for this is old reddit threads, so hardly authoritative, but supposedly the color orange was actually named after the food item.
Yes indeed. Before we had "orange", and also "purple" everything was just "red" which is why we have red onions and red cabbage that are anything but red and several species of bird are called red despite being clearly orange coloured.
Purple was sort of around. There was a dye derived by clams with a name that sounds like purple by the Phoenicians, Greeks, then Romans, and was more of a red-purple to red, but that eventually evolved into the word we use now. They also attributed it to the color of wine and of all things, the ocean.
Weirdly blue is a pretty rare color concept in the ancient world, and a number of cultures often just combined it with green, or vice versa. The closest to blue as a concept they usually got was indigo, another dye imported from India, and they'd dilute that into woad for a slightly lighter more pastel/ periwinkle blue (it wouldn't stick as well as true indigo though).
Even if those leaves were a fruit, they're not called greens. Some kinds of leaves are called that as a general term, but not the ones in the picture. He's wrong on so many levels!
Is that what he was saying? That's what I was confused about. Those leaves are not greens. They are green, but still everything you said.
Blackberries
Yellow squash
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