Given the category label furniture, we are quick to recognize chair as a better
example than bench or stool. Given clothing, people recognize shirts quicker than
shoes, and given vegetable, they accept carrot before potato or tomato. It is clear that
there is some general pattern to the categorization process involved in prototypes and
that it determines our interpretation of word meaning. However, this is one area where
individual experience can lead to substantial variation in interpretation and people
may disagree over the categorization of a word like avocado or tomato as fruit or
vegetable. These words seem to be treated as co-hyponyms of both fruit and vegetable
in different contexts.