Plants And Animals
- Seedless watermelon (they aren't really seedless, they just have small seeds. Why can't they be truly seedless like grapes?)
- Peanuts are neither a pea nor a nut.
- The tarantula hawk is neither a tarantula nor a hawk.
- "Blue" and "yellow" when describing dogs.
- Stainless steel (not really stain-proof)
- Basically anything -proof. Waterproof, bulletproof, shockproof, etc.
- Also, any physical substance that claims to be pure. You can only really say contaminants are below the level of detection.
- Volkswagen's DQ200 Direct-Shift Gearbox, which is said to use "dry" clutches, which aren't really dry and still use oil, although less.
- Dry and sweet when describing wines (not really dry or sweet in the conventional sense, although the words dry and sweet could have different meanings)
- Sandpaper contains neither sand nor paper.
- Lots of "dry" things - dry cleaning, dry cell batteries
- Pencil leads aren't made of lead any more
- Decaffeinated coffee isn't caffeine-free
- Free size / one-size-fits-all
- Ironically, most countries with "democratic" in their name - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea
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