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Well, of course it is. Who would name a fruit after a colour?

It only seems surprising because the colour is more mentally salient, so there's a cognitive bias toward assuming it's the original (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic).

By the way, "pink" is also named after a plant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_%28flower%29).



Well, some fruits are sort of named after colors. "blueberry", "blackberry", "Red Delicious", etc. But point taken.


something close is "greens"




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