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[–]buttbuttinator 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Fruit and vegetable aren't contradicting terms and while "fruit" has a clear scientific definition a "vegetable" is basically just any plant (or plant part) that people eat and is mostly only used to describe vegetables that don't fit into more specific categories like "herbs" or "fruits".

Unlike men in dresses claiming to be women, tomatoes can claim to be fruits because they fit the scientific definition in every way. They can also claim to be vegetables because fruit are a type of vegetables.