strawberry
pronunciation
How to pronounce strawberry in British English:
UK [ˈstrɔːbəri]
How to pronounce strawberry in American English:
US [ˈstrɔːberi]
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- Noun:
- sweet fleshy red fruit
- 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
- a soft red birthmark
Word Origin
- strawberry
- strawberry: [OE] 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.
- strawberry (n.)
- Old English streawberige, streaberie; see straw + berry. There is no corresponding compound in other Germanic languages; the reason for the name is uncertain, but perhaps it is in reference to the tiny chaff-like external seeds which cover the fruit. A cognate Old English name was eorðberge "earth-berry" (compare Modern German erdbeere). As a color adjective from 1670s. Strawberry blonde is attested from 1884. Strawberry mark (1847) so called for its resemblance.
Example
- 1. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him .
- 2. Garnish each stack with a strawberry half .
- 3. Organic strawberry growers don 't fumigate .
- 4. But commercial strawberry growers are skeptical about all of these methods .
- 5. It 's those daughters that produce california 's monster strawberry crop .