"Vegetable" isn't a scientific classification; botanically speaking there are no "vegetables" at all.
The article pretty clearly uses the word in the way most people in the English language use the word, and in the way the legal community (see Nix v. Hedden 1893) uses the word. Corn is an "edible part of a plant with a savory flavor" and it is taxed as a vegetable.
So if you're in a class about growing grain you're probably going to hear corn referred to as a grain. But corn is a vegetable in the context this article is set in.
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"Vegetable" isn't a scientific classification; botanically speaking there are no "vegetables" at all.
The article pretty clearly uses the word in the way most people in the English language use the word, and in the way the legal community (see Nix v. Hedden 1893) uses the word. Corn is an "edible part of a plant with a savory flavor" and it is taxed as a vegetable.
So if you're in a class about growing grain you're probably going to hear corn referred to as a grain. But corn is a vegetable in the context this article is set in.
September 30, 2011 - 3:49amThis Comment
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