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by losvedir 5447 days ago
> (Btw, bananas are berries, but cows are not deers. :) )

Not sure if you're joking or not, but to be clear to non-native speakers: bananas are definitely not berries. Berries are smaller and rounder. For example: blueberries, raspberries, blackberries. I guess strawberries, too, but they're outliers.

Also the plural of deer is deer.
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junkbit 5447 days ago
Bananas ARE berries, so are watermelons and tomatoes. But strawberries and raspberries are not berries.

Berries have seeds on the inside; a strawberry's seeds are on the outside, and raspberries are little clusters they are called something else. It's a famous quiz question in the UK :)

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vacri 5447 days ago
It depends, of course, if you're talking as a botanist or as a cook. It's one of those words with multiple levels of truth.

Same with tomato - it's a fruit botanically, but in culinary terms it's a vegetable and definitely not a fruit. As long as you get your context right, you won't have problems communicating :)

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jodrellblank 5447 days ago
Wikipedia suggests bananas are berries, at least under some definitions of 'berry':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry

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