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Strawberry

//ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi// adj, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective

1
Containing or having the flavor of strawberries.
"I'd like a large strawberry shake."
2
Flavored with ethyl methylphenylglycidate, an artificial compound which is said to resemble the taste of strawberries.
3
Of a color similar to the color of strawberry-flavoured products.
"The strawberry lipstick matched his outfit."

Proper Noun

1
A census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States.
2
A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California, United States.
3
An unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California, United States.
4
A surname

Noun

1
The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria. countable, uncountable
"They went to pick strawberries today."
2
a soft red birthmark wordnet
3
Any plant of the genus Fragaria (that bears such fruit). countable, uncountable
"She has the best strawberry patch I've ever seen."
4
sweet fleshy red fruit wordnet
5
The berry of the strawberry tree (Arbutus) countable, uncountable

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6
any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible fruits having many small achenes scattered on the surface of an enlarged red pulpy berry wordnet
7
A dark pinkish red color, like that of the fruit; strawberry red. countable, uncountable
8
Something resembling a strawberry, especially a reddish bruise, birthmark, or infantile hemangioma (naevus). countable, rare, uncountable
"strawberry marks"
9
A prostitute who exchanges sexual services for crack cocaine. US, countable, slang, uncountable
"Come home and see her mouth on the dopeman's dick / Strawberry, just look and you'll see her"
10
A butt plug with one end shaped like a strawberry fruit. countable, uncountable
"When Barey decided in 2020 to pursue porn full-time, she did not imagine that at 28 she would spend more time hunched over a desk – not in the fun way – making flow charts, scheduling Zoom calls, and sending pitch decks. “I’m at my happiest when I’m making a video like putting a strawberry in my butt and pushing it out,” she says. “Now I’m on calls all day and I have tech neck.”"

Verb

1
To gather strawberries. intransitive
"We strawberried in Michigan woods with our fat nanny, and in spring we gathered sand dollars on Daytona, passed smiling into Kodachrome."
2
To turn a dark pinkish-red. intransitive
"My hips and elbows were strawberrying painfully."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ster-der. 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, 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 stalk-like runners, compare Norwegian stråbær (“European cranberry”, which grows in a similar way); # from the practice, still common in parts of Europe, of gathering strawberries by stringing them on a straw or stalk (because wild strawberries melt quickly when gathered in a bucket).

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

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