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Botanically, sure, but from a culinary perspective they're used like a vegetable.
I don't think vegetable is a botanical term. So fruit and vegetable aren't really mutually exclusive.
Yeah I mean, mushrooms get lumped into the vegetable category most of the time and they're a fungus!
and we usually eat the fruiting body!
If my grandmother had wheels, she would be a bicycle. But she would also be my grandmother.
But what if she had four wheels?
A roller skate obviously.
I suspect that your qualifications for what constitutes a bicycle are a tad short…
That's just science as applied by engineers.
As they say, intelligence is knowing tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
(That's the saying, but IMO it's wisdom to know and intelligence to not do it, maybe I'm mixing things up).
@Ilovethebomb has the answer IMO: knowledge and wisdom.
From Dungeon Crawler Carl:
Yeah, it seems you've heard a version adapted to explain the different D&D stats.
Knowledge and wisdom is the one I've heard before.
That's way better.