# strawberry
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English strawbery, strauberi, from Old English strēawberġe, corresponding to straw +‎ berry.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈstɹɔːb(ə)ɹi/
* (US) IPA: /ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/
* (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈstɹɑˌbɛɹi/
* Audio (California):(file)

### Noun

strawberry (countable and uncountable, plural strawberries)
* The sweet, usually red, edible fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.
    They went to pick strawberries today.
* Any plant of the genus Fragaria (that bears such fruit).
    She has the best strawberry patch I've ever seen.
** 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 170:He told his father, and said it would be just suitable work for him to run about fields and woods amongst the strawberry hills after a flock of hares, and now and then lie down and take a nap on some sunny hill.
* A dark pinkish red color, like that of the fruit; strawberry red.
    strawberry:
* (rare) Something resembling a strawberry, especially a reddish bruise, birthmark, or infantile hemangioma (naevus).
    strawberry marks
** 2024 February 20, Fiona Vera-Gray, quoting Almina, “‘Everything is hairless’: what 100 women taught me about porn and body confidence”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:I have stretch marks and strawberry legs [follicles or blocked pores that appear as black dots]; discoloration all over my body.
* (US, slang) A prostitute who exchanges sexual services for crack cocaine.
** 1987, “Dope Man”, in N.W.A. and the Posse, performed by N.W.A:Come home and see her mouth on the dopeman's dick / Strawberry, just look and you'll see her
** 1992, Kathleen Boyle, Homeless crack cocaine abusers, page 40:[…] infamous in Los Angeles through media reports: the crack houses and "strawberries" (women who exchange sex for crack) […]
** 1995, B.G. Knocc Out & Dresta (lyrics and music), “Compton Hoe”, in Real Brothas‎:I'm makin mo' deals than a strawberry might I'll lick your clit, if you suck my pipe
** 1997, Peter Collier, David Horowitz, The Race Card, page 91:The desperate addiction associated with the drug has made "strawberries" — prostitutes who work for crack — fixtures of the […]

#### Synonyms

* earthberry (rare)
* strawb (informal, rare)

#### Hypernyms

* fruit
** berry

#### Meronyms

* (fruit): anthocyanin

#### Derived terms

* alpine strawberry (Fragaria vesca)
* barren strawberry (Potentilla sterilis or Waldsteinia fragarioides)
* beach strawberry (Fragaria chiloensis)
* bog strawberry (marsh cinquefoil, Comarum palustre)
* Chilean strawberry (Fragaria chiloensis)
* Chinese strawberry tree (Myrica rubra)
* coastal strawberry (Fragaria chiloensis)
* creeping strawberry pine (Microcachrys tetragona)
* crushed strawberry
* false strawberry (Duchesnea indica/Potentilla indica)
* garden strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa)
* hautbois strawberry, hautboy strawberry (Fragaria moschata)
* Indian strawberry (Duchesnea indica/Potentilla indica)
* Irish strawberry (Arbutus unedo)
* mock strawberry (Duchesnea indica/Potentilla indica)
* musk strawberry (Fragaria moschata)
* red strawberry tongue
* scarlet strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)
* sea strawberry (Gersemia rubiformis; Aplidium elegans)
* strawberrita
* strawberry aldehyde
* strawberry aphid
* strawberry begonia (Saxifraga stolonifera)
* strawberry blite (Blitum capitatum)
* strawberry blond, strawberry blonde
* strawberry bush (Euonymus americanus)
* strawberry cactus
* strawberry clover
* strawberry crab (Neoliomera pubescens)
* strawberry gallbladder
* strawberry generation
* strawberry geranium (Saxifraga stolonifera)
* strawberry guava
* strawberry hemangioma
* Strawberry Hill
* strawberry leaf
* strawberry mark
* strawberry moon
* strawberry myrtle (Ugni molinae)
* strawberry pear (Stenocereus (syn. Hylocereus) spp.)
* strawberry raspberry
* strawberry roan
* strawberry root weevil
* strawberry saxifrage (Saxifraga stolonifera)
* strawberry shortcake
* strawberry shrub (Calycanthaceae spp.)
* strawberry snail (Trochulus striolatus
* strawberry tomato (Physalis spp.)
* strawberry tongue
* strawberry tree
* Virginia strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)
* wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca)
* wood strawberry, woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca)
* yellow strawberry (Duchesnea indica/Potentilla indica)

#### Descendants

* → Bengali: স্ট্রবেরি (sṭroberi)
* → Chichewa: sitiroberi
* → Gujarati: સ્ટ્રોબેરી (sṭroberī)
* → Hindi: स्ट्रॉबेरी (sṭrŏberī)
* → Indonesian: stroberi
* → Kannada: ಸ್ಟ್ರಾಬೆರಿ (sṭrāberi)
* → Kashubian: stroberi (Canada, United States)
* → Lao: ໝາກສະຕໍເບີຣີ (māk sa tǭ bœ̄ rī)
* → Malay: strawberi
* → Thai: สตรอว์เบอร์รี (sà-dtrɔɔ-bəə-rîi)

#### Translations

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### Adjective

strawberry (comparative strawberrier, superlative strawberriest)
* Containing or having the flavor of strawberries.
    I'd like a large strawberry shake.
** 1941 May 8, Chicago Daily Tribune, volume C, number 110, page 8:We sing you a song of the strawberriest Strawberry Ice Cream on earth.
** 1948 May 5, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 100, number 243, St. Louis, Mo., page 3D:At any rate, you will agree with me that this is the “strawberriest tastin’ ” pie that you’ve ever tasted.
** 1961 June, McCall’s, volume LXXXVIII, number 9, page 47:Sixty seconds of boiling, and you’ll be admiring the strawberriest strawberry jam you ever tasted.
** 1967, Basil Cottle, The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames, Penguin Books, published 1969, page 109:Fraser Recorded in Scotland in mid-1100s as de Frisselle, de Freseliere, de Fresel, as if from a place in France, and Sir Simon F— (executed 1306) is referred to as Simond Frysel; first element ?‘ash tree’ of, the –er ?to make it ‘strawberrier’ – a pun on the three silver cinquefoils or fraises in their armorials.
** 1968 March, Ladies’ Home Journal, volume LXXXV, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, page 122:With at least 26 berries like these in every jar like this, how must Kraft Pure Strawberry Preserves taste? The strawberriest best!
** 1973, Glenn Andrews, Impromptu Cooking, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →ISBN, page 216:And your strawberry ice cream can be the strawberriest and your peach ice cream the peachiest.
** 1975 fall, sue ellen farmer, The Student, page thirty-seven, column 2:lessons exist because frozen strawberries in store are easier to pick but wild strawberries taste strawberrier.
** 1978, Barbara [Halloran] Gibbons, The International Slim Gourmet Cookbook, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 324:My strawberriest of strawberry sauces was simply strawberries, whirred until chunky in the blender, then spooned over vanilla ice cream (or, in this case, low-fat ice milk).
** 1979 June 5, Family Circle, page 41:Now Jell-O(BRAND)® Strawberry Flavor Gelatin tastes even Strawberrier.
** 1982, Barbara [Halloran] Gibbons, Slim Gourmet Sweets and Treats, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 11:When used to sweeten out-of-season California strawberries, the berries are not only sweeter but “strawberrier,” with a flavor more like home-grown or field-ripened fruit.
** 1998, Les Fox, Sue Fox, The Beanie Baby Handbook, West Highland Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 161:Kiwi, Kiwi, chirping bright / In the forests of the night / Only a Kiwi could be merrier / About shortcake so strawberrier!
** 2000, Nigella Lawson, How to Be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 347:It occurred to me when I was last making the strawberries in dark syrup from How to Eat that there was no reason why I couldn’t use the balsamic vinegar – which provides the darkness and really does seem to make the strawberries strawberrier – when making jam.
** 2004 May, Sunset, page 127:It’s the strawberriest shortcake ever.
** 2005, Rowan Clifford, Rodeo Ron and His Milkshake Cows‎, Borzoi Books, →ISBN:Down leaped Ron and milked the frothiest, fruitiest, strawberriest milkshake anybody had ever tasted.
** 2009, Annette Yates, Ice Cream Made Easy: Homemade Recipes for Ice Cream Machines, Right Way, →ISBN, page 39:“The strawberriest ice cream I have ever tasted!” was the verdict of my daughter Lindsay.
** 2011, Hartley Pool, Stranger in Taiwan, Revenge Ink, →ISBN, page 77:Mind you, I have to admit they were three of the strawberriest looking strawberries I have ever seen.
** 2013, Caroline Green, Hold Your Breath, Piccadilly Press, →ISBN, page 125:It was the strawberriest strawberry ever.
** 2013 January, Front, number 177, page 38:HANNAH SAYS: “Wow, these are incredibly juicy. These are the strawberriest things in the world. They’re more strawberry[-]ish than actual strawberries. They’re incredible!”
** 2022 June 9, Daniel Neman, “Strawberry spectacular”, in Hartford Courant, volume CLXXXVI, section 4, page 4, column 1:Right now, strawberries are their strawberriest.
* Flavored with ethyl methylphenylglycidate, an artificial compound which is said to resemble the taste of strawberries.
* Of a color similar to the color of strawberry-flavoured products.
    The strawberry lipstick matched his outfit.
** 2006, Ida Liberkowski, Cynthia Malizia, Along the Amalfi Drive, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 282:They are, at once, beautiful and curious, with their translucent white skin and strawberriest blond hair, looking like a group of Wagner’s Valkyrie lost in a Puccini opera.

#### Synonyms

* strawberryish
* strawberrylike

#### Translations
### Verb

strawberry (third-person singular simple present strawberries, present participle strawberrying, simple past and past participle strawberried)
* (intransitive) To gather strawberries.
** 1994, New England Review, volume 16, page 35:We strawberried in Michigan woods with our fat nanny, and in spring we gathered sand dollars on Daytona, passed smiling into Kodachrome.
* (intransitive) To turn a dark pinkish-red.
** 1986, Les Whitten, Sometimes a Hero, page 352:My hips and elbows were strawberrying painfully.

### See also

* arbutus
* Carolina allspice
* hautboy
* blood red
* brick red
* burgundy
* cardinal
* carmine
* carnation
* cerise
* cherry
* cherry red
* Chinese red
* cinnabar
* claret
* crimson
* damask
* fire brick
* fire engine red
* flame
* flamingo
* fuchsia
* garnet
* geranium
* gules
* hot pink
* incarnadine
* Indian red
* magenta
* maroon
* misty rose
* nacarat
* oxblood
* pillar-box red
* pink
* Pompeian red
* poppy
* raspberry
* red violet
* rose
* rouge
* ruby
* ruddy
* salmon
* sanguine
* scarlet
* shocking pink
* stammel
* strawberry
* Turkey red
* Venetian red
* vermilion
* vinaceous
* vinous
* violet red
* wine

### References

* “strawberry”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “strawberry”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* strawberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Fragaria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
* Category:Fragaria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
* “strawberry n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present