strawberry
Meanings
- The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.
- Any plant of the genus Fragaria (that bears such fruit).
- The berry of the strawberry tree (Arbutus)
- A dark pinkish red color, like that of the fruit; strawberry red.
- Something resembling a strawberry, especially a reddish bruise, birthmark, or infantile hemangioma (naevus).
- A prostitute who exchanges sexual services for crack cocaine.
- A butt plug with one end shaped like a strawberry fruit.
- Containing or having the flavor of strawberries.
- 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.
- To gather strawberries.
- To turn a dark pinkish-red.
- A census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States.
- A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California, United States.
- An unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California, United States.
- A surname
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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 strawberie English strawberry From Middle English strawberie, strawbery, from Old English strēawberġe, corresponding to straw + berry. Of various theories advanced to explain the name, the two most plausible are: # from the fact that wild strawberries grow on straw-like runners (compare Norwegian stråbær, denoting cranberries, which grow in a similar way); # from the practice, still common in parts of Europe, of gathering strawberries by stringing them on a straw or stalk.