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barren strawberry
noun
- a low-growing plant, Waldsteinia fragarioides, of the rose family, native to north temperate regions, having long stalks with three toothed leaflets and yellow flowers.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of barren strawberry1
An Americanism dating back to 1890–95; so called because the fruit is dry and inedible
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Example Sentences
Dog-violets, barren strawberry, and the yellowish-green spurge are in flower there now.
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Neither is there any demand for the white barren strawberry blossom, or the purplish ground-ivy among the finely marked fern moss.
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One tiny white flower of barren strawberry has ventured to bloom.
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