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Agentlientoday at 9:54 AM1 replyview on HN

Everything is an apple, it seems. You also have earth apples (pomme de terre in French, aardappel in Dutch) for potatoes, grenade apples (pomegranate in English, granatäpple in Swedish, ...), pineapple, ...


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xattttoday at 11:56 AM

It helps that Latin has the word pomus for fruit.