The avocado on your toast is not a nut and not even a vegetable. In botanical terms it is a berry, and a very large one. Avocado belongs to the Lauraceae, the laurel family, which also includes cinnamon trees and bay laurel. Culinary categories ignore this kinship, but plant anatomy does not.Botanists define a berry as a fleshy fruit that develops from a single ovary, has a soft outer wall called ...More