Saturday, December 6, 2008

i was just browsing through wordne at Princeton. It's not just this dictionary, but a lot of other dictionaries claim that strawberry is a fruit! Now, it's technically NOT a fruit. It's a false fruit. The fleshy part is not derived from the ovary but that's how fruits are supposed to be. Instead, the fleshy part of strawberry is just a tissue adjacent to the ovary. It's those 'seeds' on the skin of a strawberry 'fruit' that are the real fruits. 

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