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05-04-2003, 11:32 PM

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In austin.forsale Victor M. Martinez wrote:
Crickets! wrote:
Anything that has a seed in it is defined as a fruit...me thinks.
Cucumber is a fruit.

According to Webster's:
Fruit
n. pl. fruit or fruits
The ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant, .....
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Vital part you left out.

Given a million years of evolution, I could safely say, "suck my dick" or
"eat me" and I'd be right.

mapi

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