Re: NEW COMP


"Jane Willis" <jm.willisPICKLE@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On 22 Nov 2005 13:57:17 -0800, "telstar" <amsralph@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> the competition is an easy one ( Is banana a fruit or a vegetable?
>>)
>
> That isn't easy at all because a banana is neither. Technically it's a
> herb.

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutother/banana
A banana (the yellow thing you peel and eat) is undoubtedly a fruit
(containing the seeds of the plant: see answer regarding tomatoes), though
since commercially grown banana plants are sterile, the seeds are reduced to
little specks. However, the banana plant, though it is called a
'banana-tree' in popular usage, is technically regarded as a herbaceous
plant (or 'herb'), not a tree, because the stem does not contain true woody
tissue.

Shiela S


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