strawberry

Definitions

General English

  • noun a common

    soft

    red summer fruit

    which

    grows on low plants

Agriculture

  • noun a

    soft fruit

    of the Fragaria

    species

    , used as a

    dessert fruit

    , but also preserved as jam

Food

  • The sweet, flavoursome and decorative fruit of a ground-creeping

    perennial

    plant, Fragaria x ananasa, generally conical, up to 5 cm long and consisting of a cluster of small

    fleshy

    globules, each of which has a single seed on the outer surface, around a central fleshy stem, with the remains of the calyx at the broad end. Eaten on their own with cream and possibly

    caster sugar

    or in

    made

    -up desserts, tarts, cakes and jams.

Slang

  • noun a prostitute who sells sex for drugs

Travel

  • noun a common red heart-shaped soft

    summer

    fruit, used in desserts and also preserved as jam

Wine

  • a taste or

    aroma

    associated with red wines from the Beaujolais and

    Burgundy

    regions of France or from the Rioja

    region

    of northern Spain

Origin & History of “strawberry”

The origins of strawberry

have

long puzzled etymologists. The two

most

plausible suggestions put forward are

that

the runners put out by strawberry plants, long trailing shoots that spread across the ground, reminded

people

of straws laid on the floor; and that word preserves a now

defunct

sense of straw, ‘small piece of

straw

or chaff’, supposedly in allusion to the fruit’s ‘chafflike’ external seeds.
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