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CHILEAN STRAWBERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chilean strawberry mean? 

CHILEAN STRAWBERRY (noun)
  The noun CHILEAN STRAWBERRY has 1 sense:

1. wild strawberry of western United States and South America; source of many varieties of cultivated strawberriesplay

  Familiarity information: CHILEAN STRAWBERRY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHILEAN STRAWBERRY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Wild strawberry of western United States and South America; source of many varieties of cultivated strawberries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

beach strawberry; Chilean strawberry; Fragaria chiloensis

Hypernyms ("Chilean strawberry" is a kind of...):

strawberry (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)

Holonyms ("Chilean strawberry" is a member of...):

Fragaria; genus Fragaria (strawberries)


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