Okay, and raspberries aren't technically berries at all, but aggregate fruits. In other words, so the fuck what? When you say 'coconut tree', everyone knows what plant you're referring to.

Trees are the plant version of crabs.

There's no widely-accepted scientific definition of a tree.

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science has gone too far with this one!!

it looks like a tree and quacks like a tree though.

"Tree" isn't a biological definition. It's a descriptive term for "a tall plant with at least one rigid central trunk." Which means that anything that looks like a tree is probably a tree, regardless of species.

I have literature right here that says otherwise.

Ahem..

"A told B, and B told C, I'll beat you to the top of the coconut tree."

You can tell it's an Aspen from the way it is

birds are dinosaurs