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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Like cashews!

I thought nuts had to come from trees, though.

Like, peanuts aren't actually nuts.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

There's a legumes joke in there, but I dunno.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Peanuts claim to be nuts, but they aren't a legumtimate part of the taxonomy.

I dunno.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago

Ah, my favorite flavor enhancing chemical:

Monosodium Legumtimate.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Honest attempt. 7.5/10.

[-] stray@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding your post, but cashews are drupes, not nuts. I don't know whether all true nuts come from trees, but all the ones I can think of do.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If strawberries are nuts, cashews are nuts. It's a seed that grows on the outside of an accessory fruit.

Obviously strawberries aren't nuts either but we're playing pretty fast and loose with words and meanings.

[-] alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The "nut" from a cashew is the seed a stone fruit (like the center of a peach pit). The strawberry "seed" is the entire fruit.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't see why the apple from a cashew can't also be classified as an aggregate accessory fruit, like the red flesh of the strawberry, which would make the cashew pit an achene like the seeds of a strawberry.

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