strawberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɔːb(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈstɹɑˌbɛɹi/
Forms: form: strawberries
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ster-
Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *strew-der.
Proto-Germanic *strawą
Proto-West Germanic *strau
Old English strēaw
Proto-Germanic *bazją
Proto-West Germanic *baʀi
Old English berġe
Old English strēawberġe
Middle English strawbery
English strawberry
From Middle English strawbery, strauberi, from Old English strēawberġe. May derive from the practice (still common in parts of Europe) of gathering strawberries by stringing them on a straw or stalk. By surface analysis, straw + berry.
Senses: examples: text: They went to pick strawberries today.
text: Communication is a kind of beauty, he said – and “beauty manifests itself from the noun itself, without strawberries on the cake.”
ref: 2019 September 24, Jessie Yeung, quoting Pope Francis, “Pope Francis loves nouns but is ‘allergic’ to adjectives”, in CNN, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2019:
text: Is there a sweeter time of year than strawberry season? As soon as the trees start bursting into pink buds, the first strawberries can’t be far behind at the farmers market.
ref: 2022 May 9, Casey Barber, “Strawberry season has arrived. Here are tips for enjoying spring’s sweetest treat”, in CNN, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2022:
glosses: The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.
examples: text: She has the best strawberry patch I've ever seen.
text: 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.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 170:
glosses: Any plant of the genus Fragaria (that bears such fruit).
glosses: The berry of the strawberry tree (Arbutus)
glosses: A dark pinkish red color, like that of the fruit; strawberry red.
examples: text: strawberry marks
text: I have stretch marks and strawberry legs [follicles or blocked pores that appear as black dots]^([sic]); discoloration all over my body.
ref: 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:
glosses: Something resembling a strawberry, especially a reddish bruise, birthmark, or infantile hemangioma (naevus).
examples: text: Come home and see her mouth on the dopeman's dick / Strawberry, just look and you'll see her
ref: 1987, “Dope Man”, in N.W.A. and the Posse, performed by N.W.A:
text: […] infamous in Los Angeles through media reports: the crack houses and "strawberries" (women who exchange sex for crack) […]
ref: 1992, Kathleen Boyle, Homeless crack cocaine abusers, page 40:
text: I'm makin mo' deals than a strawberry might
I'll lick your clit, if you suck my pipe
ref: 1995, B.G. Knocc Out & Dresta, “Compton Hoe”, in Real Brothas:
text: The desperate addiction associated with the drug has made "strawberries" — prostitutes who work for crack — fixtures of the […]
ref: 1997, Peter Collier, David Horowitz, The Race Card, page 91:
glosses: A prostitute who exchanges sexual services for crack cocaine.
Synonyms: word: earthberry
word: strawb
Hypernyms: berry
fruit
Meronyms: sense: fruit
word: anthocyanin
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from strawberry
taxonomic: Fragaria vesca
word: alpine strawberry
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
alt: Potentilla sterilis or Waldsteinia fragarioides
word: barren strawberry
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
taxonomic: Fragaria chiloensis
word: beach strawberry
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
alt: marsh cinquefoil, Comarum palustre
word: bog strawberry
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
taxonomic: Fragaria chiloensis
word: Chilean strawberry
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
taxonomic: Myrica rubra
word: Chinese strawberry tree
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
taxonomic: Fragaria chiloensis
word: coastal strawberry
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
taxonomic: Microcachrys tetragona
word: creeping strawberry pine
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: crushed strawberry
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
alt: Duchesnea indica/Potentilla indica
word: false strawberry
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
taxonomic: Fragaria × ananassa
word: garden strawberry
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: hautbois strawberry
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
taxonomic: Fragaria moschata
word: hautboy strawberry
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
alt: Duchesnea indica/Potentilla indica
word: Indian strawberry
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
taxonomic: Arbutus unedo
word: Irish strawberry
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
alt: Duchesnea indica/Potentilla indica
word: mock strawberry
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
taxonomic: Fragaria moschata
word: musk strawberry
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: red strawberry tongue
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
taxonomic: Fragaria virginiana
word: scarlet strawberry
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
alt: Gersemia rubiformis; Aplidium elegans
word: sea strawberry
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: strawberrita
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: strawberryade
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: strawberry aldehyde
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: strawberry aphid
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
taxonomic: Saxifraga stolonifera
word: strawberry begonia
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
taxonomic: Blitum capitatum
word: strawberry blite
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: strawberry blond
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: strawberry blonde
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: strawberry bud weevil
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
taxonomic: Euonymus americanus
word: strawberry bush
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: strawberry cactus
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: strawberry clover
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
taxonomic: Neoliomera pubescens
word: strawberry crab
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: strawberry gallbladder
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: strawberry generation
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
taxonomic: Saxifraga stolonifera
word: strawberry geranium
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: strawberry guava
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: strawberry hemangioma
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: Strawberry Hill
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: strawberry leaf
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: strawberry mark
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: strawberry moon
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
taxonomic: Ugni molinae
word: strawberry myrtle
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
english: Stenocereus (syn. Hylocereus) spp.
translation: Stenocereus (syn. Hylocereus) spp.
word: strawberry pear
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: strawberry raspberry
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: strawberry roan
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: strawberry root weevil
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
taxonomic: Saxifraga stolonifera
word: strawberry saxifrage
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: strawberry shortcake
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
taxonomic: Calycanthaceae spp.
word: strawberry shrub
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: strawberry snail (Trochulus striolatus
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: strawberrytini
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
taxonomic: Physalis spp.
word: strawberry tomato
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: strawberry tongue
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: strawberry tree
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: strawberry weevil
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
taxonomic: Fragaria virginiana
word: Virginia strawberry
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
taxonomic: Fragaria vesca
word: wild strawberry
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
word: wood strawberry
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
taxonomic: Fragaria vesca
word: woodland strawberry
sense: Terms derived from strawberry
alt: Duchesnea indica/Potentilla indica
word: yellow strawberry