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Botanically speaking, yes, bananas are a type of berry.

A berry in the botanical sense is a fleshy fruit produced from a single flower and containing one ovary.


Botanical berries include a lot of things you might not normally think of as "berries", such as bananas, peppers, avocados, and tomatoes ... and a few things that you probably do, like blueberries and Gooseberries. Grapes are also berries, though that's probably not as shocking a revelation as that pumpkins are as well.


Also, some things that are called berries technically are not. Strawberries, for example, are not a berry but what botanists call an "accessory fruit" (the tiny "seeds" are from the ovaries; the red fleshy portion grows from a separate structure); blackberries and raspberries are not berries but rather "aggregate fruits" (the individual "bumps" are each from a different ovary of the same flower); mulberries (despite looking A LOT like blackberries) are "multiple fruits" (each little bump is from the ovary of a separate flower).

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