Strawberry
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.
noun (pl) -ries
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
(as modifier): a strawberry patch
2.
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
3.
barren strawberry, a related Eurasian plant, Potentilla sterilis, that does not produce edible fruit
4.
a purplish-red colour
(as adjective): strawberry shoes
5.
another name for strawberry mark
strap with
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