Do Tomatoes #amount to Vegetables or Fruits? @justiaCom and/or @MelissaPetru(zzello) @Britannica clears the question up
I mention cracked tomatoes in a blog you can access through 'the bold word(s)' below; but first I want to teach you about those words. And I find you understand words better if you see 'the words at their base' (then going on to look at the words at those words' bases, then the words at those words' bases, etc.-etc. ad infinitum into their Foundation)
The word “Tomato” is built on foundations that include ancient words that mean Amount, built on ancient words that mean "To the Mountain (Project)." The |Quantity-noun comes from a Stock-Count 'Rising in Number (so as to reach a Sum).' (It's also the verb for Mounting (a Horse) or Going Up (a |Steep Hill).)
#Amounted #Amounting (Middle English had #Amountance #Amountment) Paramount #Tantamount
The word “Fruit” is built on foundations that include ancient words that mean Soil (as 'Fruit' was once the word used for ALL Harvested-Products), and #Soil is built on ancient words that mean Pig (for the Dirty, |Begrimed, |Wallowing verb), with the noun (for Land---usually Farmland) based on a merger/confusion of the verb and the words for "Bottom, Ground" (see |Sole) and those for "Threshold, Area, Place" (from words that mean Seat, Sit).
#Soiled #Soiling #FreeSoil #Subsoil #Sully #Topsoil
In everyday life, the tomato is both (fruit to botanists, vegetable to nutritionists); but it matters that they're vegetables because of the Tariff Act of March 3, 1883.
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