strawberry

[straw-ber-ee, -buh-ree]

noun

plural

strawberries 

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.

strawberry

/ ˈstrɔːbərɪ, -brɪ /

noun

1. 1. 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

   2. ( as modifier )

      a strawberry patch

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

   2. ( as modifier )

      strawberry ice cream

3. a related Eurasian plant, Potentilla sterilis, that does not produce edible fruit

4. 1. a purplish-red colour

   2. ( as adjective )

      strawberry shoes

5. another name for strawberry mark

Word History and Origins

Origin of strawberry¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of strawberry¹

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

Example Sentences

I woke up early on game day and baked heart-shaped strawberry cream scones and assembled smoked-salmon and salmon-roe bagel sandwiches from a Russ & Daughters order placed the day before.

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It’s got strawberries, bananas and this vitamin mix I put in there.

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The same AI that aced the genius test can’t count how many times the letter “R” appears in “strawberry.”

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“If strawberries are expensive, I’ll buy apples—there are substitutes,” said Meredith Fowlie, an energy economist at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Mitschunas is also testing everything from lettuce and celery to pumpkins and strawberries -- and even aromatic plants.

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