GENUS FRAGARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Fragaria mean? 

• GENUS FRAGARIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS FRAGARIA has 1 sense:

1. strawberries

  Familiarity information: GENUS FRAGARIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS FRAGARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Strawberries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Fragaria; genus Fragaria

Hypernyms ("genus Fragaria" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Fragaria"):

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)

cultivated strawberry; Fragaria ananassa; garden strawberry (widely cultivated)

Fragaria vesca; wild strawberry; wood strawberry (Europe)

beach strawberry; Chilean strawberry; Fragaria chiloensis (wild strawberry of western United States and South America; source of many varieties of cultivated strawberries)

Fragaria virginiana; scarlet strawberry; Virginia strawberry (North American wild strawberry with sweet scarlet fruit; a source of many cultivated strawberries)

Holonyms ("genus Fragaria" is a member of...):

family Rosaceae; Rosaceae; rose family (a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens)