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Polish: *gives species a name that identifies it without ambiguity*
English: berry.
Science: that's not a berry
Same thing with nuts and melons.
This is so common that I wonder if it's the scientists that are wrong. They used the word to describe something different than what's usually called a berry.
Science applied technical definitions to these terms centuries after they were already in common usage