strawberry

[ straw-ber-ee, -buh-ree ]
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noun,plural straw·ber·ries.
  1. the fruit of any stemless plant belonging to the genus Fragaria, of the rose family, consisting of an enlarged fleshy receptacle bearing achenes on its exterior.

  2. the plant itself.

Origin of strawberry

1
before 1000; Middle English; Old English strēawberige.See straw, berry

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How to use strawberry in a sentence

  • Twenty acres of apple trees all in a orchard together, and twenty acres of strawberries set out betwixt and between the rows!

    The Bondboy | George W. (George Washington) Ogden
  • It very much resembles strawberries in taste, and, like them, is eaten with wine and sugar.

  • And you know that mangoes taste very much like strawberries and cream with sugar on them.

    Kari the Elephant | Dhan Gopal Mukerji
  • Pineapples give the best result among cultivated fruit, and strawberries do well in the higher districts.

  • Until recently, diet in hay fever was a matter of avoiding meat and strawberries and the result was usually unsatisfactory.

    The Treatment of Hay Fever | George Frederick Laidlaw

British Dictionary definitions for strawberry

strawberry

/ (ˈstrɔːbərɪ, -brɪ) /


nounplural -ries
    • any of various low-growing rosaceous plants of the genus Fragaria, such as F. vesca (wild strawberry) and F. ananassa (garden strawberry), which have white flowers and red edible fruits and spread by runners

    • (as modifier): a strawberry patch

    • the fruit of any of these plants, consisting of a sweet fleshy receptacle bearing small seedlike parts (the true fruits)

    • (as modifier): strawberry ice cream

  1. barren strawberry a related Eurasian plant, Potentilla sterilis, that does not produce edible fruit

    • a purplish-red colour

    • (as adjective): strawberry shoes

  2. another name for strawberry mark

Origin of strawberry

1
Old English streawberige; perhaps from the strawlike appearance of the runners

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