A strawberry isn’t a berry (nor is it made of straw, of course.)
Neither is a blackberry, nor a raspberry.
…but a tomato *is *a berry. :smack:
A strawberry isn’t a berry (nor is it made of straw, of course.)
Neither is a blackberry, nor a raspberry.
…but a tomato *is *a berry. :smack:
It’s a “cheese” in the older sense of something made from a number of small pieces squished together into a mass. The dairy product is a “cheese” of curds.
In the UK telegraph poles carry telephone lines, they haven’t actually carried telegraph lines for the Lord knows how long, probably 70 or 80 years. The old name just stuck.
Several baseball venues have all these things-the Diamondbacks’ park for example, which even has a swimming pool. Parks also tend to have big lawns.
Peach fuzz.
Car-pet.
the obvious hot dog.
Umm…tank top?
Hamburger! Not a cow.
Actually they are all three berries.
In everyday English, “berry” is a term for any small edible fruit. These “berries” are usually juicy, round or semi-oblong, brightly coloured, sweet or sour, and do not have a stone or pit, although many seeds may be present.
If you’re nerdy enough to accept that a tomato is a fruit, you’re nerdy enough to accept that drupelet aggregates and aggregate accessories are not berries.
Starfish do look like stars, but are not fish. People who study them use the name “sea stars.”
Sea horse
Sea cucumber
Seabees
Navy SEALs
fish used to mean just about anything in the ocean: jellyfish, cuttlefish, etc. Maybe it was originally from fish as a verb?
Dammit. Beaten again!
However, to hear some tell it, it can be a chore…
Cocktail
It is, however, piebald, or pied.
Depending on how literal you want to get, the fire department doesn’t provide fire in the same way the water department provides water, and you can’t buy a home at a home store. (Yes, it’s been done.)
The other joke is that Christian Scientists are like Grape Nuts.
Neither French Toast nor French Fries have anything to do with the country of France.
And of course, headjob.
Granted, there is a head, involved.
Ringworm.
wolfram
Madison Square Garden – another 3-way: not on Madison St., not square, not a garden
Colonial Goose was a common dish a few decades ago in New Zealand (oh okay, and Australia too) - It’s roast mutton (old sheep).
The problem is that people can’t distinguish between culinary and botanical terms.