esculent -- carrots, celery, tomatoes... but wait, those don't fit the category! i understand the seeds define the classification but i still link tomatoes to the salads they decorate more than to the fruits they pass in the street. am i strange that i see divisions between objects? they're both edible -- shouldn't they be equivalent? but they're not. two things may be interchangeable but they're not identical. just because both fill the same blank doesn't mean they fill it the same way. different clothes for a different man.