A strawberry isn't a berry. But scientifically speaking a banana is a berry. So what's the deal? Why

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    It is all to do with definitions.
    A berry, in botany, a simple fleshy fruit that usually has many seeds, such as the banana, grape, melon, orange, and tomato. As a simple fruit, a berry is derived from a single ovary of an individual flower.
    A Strawberry (and a Raspberry)is a "false fruit," a pseudocarp. A strawberry is actually a multiple fruit which consists of many tiny individual fruits embedded in a fleshy receptacle.
     
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    Palu got that exactly didn’t he.
     
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    @Pacnorwest it is the same reason we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway. LOL
     
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    Well done, Clay.
     
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    Great guys love your comments.. :setf_016::setc_005:
     
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    Same as boiling a kettle when we mean boiling the water.
     
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