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strawberry (iou)



strawberry noun & adjective. OE.
[from STRAW noun + BERRY noun1: the reason for the name is obscure.]
A. noun.
The edible fruit of any plant of the genus Fragaria (see sense 2), consisting of a much enlarged pulpy usu. scarlet receptacle studded with small yellow achenes; esp. the large succulent fruit of F. ananassa, the kind commonly cultivated. OE.
Any of the plants constituting the genus Fragaria, of the rose family, which are characterized by having trifoliate leaves in a basal rosette, five-petalled white flowers, and long trailing runners; esp. F. vesca (more fully wild strawberry), a small-fruited plant of woods and shady banks in Europe and temperate N. America. OE.
alpine strawberry a form of the wild strawberry grown for its fruit, which is borne over a long period. barren strawberry a kind of wild cinquefoil, Potentilla sterilis, resembling the wild strawberry in flower but lacking the characteristic fruit. hautboy strawberry: see HAUTBOY 2.
A representation of the fruit as an ornament. E16.
= strawberry red below. L17.
A variety of beadlet (sea) anemone having a crimson body with green spots. M19.
Any of various things resembling a strawberry in shape or colour, as (a) an emery bag in the shape of a strawberry; (b) N. Amer. colloq. a sore or bruise, esp. one caused by friction with the ground; (c) a nose having the colour of a strawberry, esp. as the result of heavy drinking. E20.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Of or resembling the colour of a strawberry, deep pinkish-red. L17.
Comb. & special collocations: strawberry bass US the black crappie, Pomoxis nigromaculatus; strawberry birthmark = strawberry mark below; strawberry blite a kind of goosefoot, Chenopodium capitatum, with red berry-like fruits, sometimes grown as a pot-herb; strawberry blond, strawberry blonde adjective & noun (a) adjective (of the hair) light reddish-blond in colour; (of a person) having light reddish-blond hair; (b) noun (a person, esp. a woman, with) hair of this colour; strawberry bush an American spindle tree, Euonymus americanus; strawberry clover a clover of clayey soils, Trifolium fragiferum, which in fruit develops a dense globose head resembling a strawberry, with inflated calyces; strawberry colour = strawberry red below; strawberry dish a round shallow dish of silver of a kind made in England in the 17th and 18th cents.; strawberry geranium a saxifrage grown for ornament, Saxifraga stolonifera, with round or heart-shaped leaves and stolons like those of the strawberry; strawberry guava a Brazilian guava, Psidium littorale var. longipes, with sweet purplish-red fruits resembling the strawberry in flavour; Strawberry Hill (Gothic) Architecture [from the name of a house in Twickenham rebuilt in this style between 1750 and 1770 by Horace Walpole] an early phase of the Gothic revival preceding that of the 19th cent. (freq. attrib.); strawberry leaf (a) the leaf of the strawberry plant; formerly also, the plant itself; (b) (sing. & in pl.) colloq. (the rank of) a marquess, earl, or (esp.) duke [with allus. to the row of stylized strawberry leaves around the coronets of such peers]; strawberry mark a soft red birthmark, freq. not persistent in later life; strawberry perch US = strawberry bass above; strawberry pot a large garden pot with pockets in its sides, orig. designed to contain growing strawberry plants; strawberry red the deep pinkish-red colour of a strawberry; strawberry roan: see ROAN noun2; strawberry shrub Carolina allspice, Calycanthus floridus; strawberry spinach = strawberry blite above; strawberry tomato a N. American ground cherry, Physalis pruinosa, grown for its edible berries; the fruit of such a plant; strawberry tree a chiefly Mediterranean evergreen tree of the heath family, Arbutus unedo, with orange-red fruits resembling strawberries, in the British Isles native only in Ireland; strawberry weevil a small black and white beetle, Anthonomus signatus, of eastern N. America, which lays its eggs in strawberry buds, so that no fruit is formed.