strawberry
The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.
Example
“They went to pick strawberries today.”
Other meanings
Any plant of the genus Fragaria (that bears such fruit).
“She has the best strawberry patch I've ever seen.”
The berry of the strawberry tree (Arbutus)
A kind of
- berry
Word history
From Old English "strēawberġe".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “strawberry” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.