When the fruit Orange was discovered, everyone was too lazy to give it a name, so they just gave it the name of the color it was consisted of.
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Because the Dutch are called orange, while they are orange. But a lime isn’t yellow.
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Cherries are red and aren't called red tho
Komodо
Yes, but nobody kers
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Because the colour was named after the fruit, not the other way around.
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Same goes for lime btw