strawberry
See also: Strawberry
English
Etymology
From Middle English strawbery, strauberi, from Old English strēawberġe, corresponding to straw + berry.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈstɹɔːb(ə)ɹi/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈstɹɑˌbɛɹi/
Audio (US, 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 colour, like that of the fruit; strawberry red.
- strawberry:
- (rare) Something resembling a strawberry, especially a reddish bruise, birthmark, or infantile hemangioma (naevus).
- 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][sic]; 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) […]
- 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)
Meronyms
- (fruit): anthocyanin
Derived terms
Terms derived from strawberry
- 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)
- strawberry aldehyde
- strawberry aphid
- strawberry begonia (Saxifraga stolonifera)
- strawberry blite (Blitum capitatum)
- strawberry blond, strawberry blonde
- strawberry bush (Euonymus americanus)
- strawberry cactus
- 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)
- Lao: ໝາກສະຕໍເບີຣີ (māk sa tǭ bœ̄ rī)
- Malay: strawberi
- Thai: สตรอว์เบอร์รี (sà-dtrɔɔ-bəə-rîi)
Translations
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strawberry mark
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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.
- 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!
- 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® 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.
- 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.
- 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 colour similar to the colour 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
Translations
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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
- (reds) red; 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 (Category: en:Reds)
References
- “strawberry”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “strawberry”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- strawberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Fragaria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Fragaria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Jonathon Green (2024) “strawberry n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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