alt Hacker Newsthat's like saying tomato is a fruit
in biological journal, sure - for practical purposes straight up no
if it looks like a jellyfish, stings like a jellyfish and behaves like a jellyfish - then it doesn't matter what it looks like under a microscope, it is jellyfish
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the_af • today at 1:34 PM
Portuguese Man o' Wars look distinct enough from jellyfish. Their sails make parts of their bodies float above water, something no jellyfish can do to my knowledge. I can confuse species of jellyfish but there's no confusing the man o' wars...
Many people now know that a tomato is a fruit, and will distinguish it with exactly the 'did you know a tomato is not a vegetable?' fun fact, so I'm not sure this is a great point. If someone asked me to list vegetables and they were being rigorous about it I wouldn't list a tomato. If they're not being rigorous about it then anything goes really - sometimes you can put things like apples in a salad so that must be a vegetable as well.