STRAWBERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does strawberry mean? 

• STRAWBERRY (noun)
  The noun STRAWBERRY has 3 senses:

1. sweet fleshy red fruit

2. 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

3. a soft red birthmark

  Familiarity information: STRAWBERRY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRAWBERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sweet fleshy red fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

berry (any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves)

Holonyms ("strawberry" is a part of...):

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "strawberry"):

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

Fragaria; genus Fragaria (strawberries)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A soft red birthmark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

hemangioma simplex; strawberry; strawberry mark

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

birthmark; nevus (a blemish on the skin that is formed before birth)

 Context examples 

Yes, you were very cross; and I do not know what about, except that you were too late for the best strawberries.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

As expected, under the white light, people matched oranges to orange, strawberries and tomatoes to reds, and faces and hands to some variation of brown or tannish pink.

(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)

On Midsummer-eve, Adele, weary with gathering wild strawberries in Hay Lane half the day, had gone to bed with the sun.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Strawberry powder was the best stabilizer, completely preventing melt‐down, followed closely by raspberry.

(Freeze-Dried Strawberries and Ice Cream Make for a Very Stable Relationship, Agricultural Research Service)

Systemic disease primarily of infants and young children, characterized by skin rash, swelling of hands and feet, enlarged cervical lymph nodes, strawberry tongue, dry and cracked lips, high fevers, and coronary artery disease.

(Kawasaki Disease, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

I'll have blanc mange and strawberries for dessert, and coffee too, if you want to be elegant.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Ascorbic acid is found in all fruits and vegetables, especially citrus fruits, strawberries, cantaloupe, green peppers, tomatoes, broccoli, leafy greens, and potatoes.

(Ascorbic acid, NCI Dictionary)

They went across divides in summer blizzards, shivered under the midnight sun on naked mountains between the timber line and the eternal snows, dropped into summer valleys amid swarming gnats and flies, and in the shadows of glaciers picked strawberries and flowers as ripe and fair as any the Southland could boast.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Mine is no squalor of song that cannot transmute itself, with proper exchange value, into a flower-crowned cottage, a sweet mountain- meadow, a grove of redwoods, an orchard of thirty-seven trees, one long row of blackberries and two short rows of strawberries, to say nothing of a quarter of a mile of gurgling brook.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

When you are tired of eating strawberries in the garden, there shall be cold meat in the house.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)