Stan Goodman wrote or quoted:
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 07:53:43 UTC, Tim Tyler opined:
Stan Goodman wrote or quoted:
Why is it difficult to understand that a vegetable is something that is
neither animal nor mineral [...]
I'm not sure how to understand your answers below, so (at the risk of being
accused of not having a sense of humor, I do it straight:
Because of mushrooms and bacteria ;-)
Mushrooms are certainly vegetables: they are life, so they aren't mineral;
they aren't animal. What's left? [...]
Briefly:
Eubacteria, Archaea, Protists, Fungi - and possibly viruses (as well
as plants).
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