Meaning

The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria..

Definitions by Sense

1. The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.
2. Any plant of the genus Fragaria (that bears such fruit).
3. The berry of the strawberry tree (Arbutus)
4. A dark pinkish red color, like that of the fruit; strawberry red.
5. (rare) Something resembling a strawberry, especially a reddish bruise, birthmark, or infantile hemangioma (naevus).
6. (US, slang) A prostitute who exchanges sexual services for crack cocaine.
7. A butt plug with one end shaped like a strawberry fruit.
8. Containing or having the flavor of strawberries.

Example Sentences

They went to pick strawberries today.

Communication is a kind of beauty, he said – and “beauty manifests itself from the noun itself, without strawberries on the cake.”

Is there a sweeter time of year than strawberry season? As soon as the trees start bursting into pink buds, the first strawberries can’t be far behind at the farmers market.

She has the best strawberry patch I've ever seen.

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.

strawberry marks

I have stretch marks and strawberry legs [follicles or blocked pores that appear as black dots]^([sic]); discoloration all over my body.

Come home and see her mouth on the dopeman's dick / Strawberry, just look and you'll see her

Word Forms

• strawberries
• strawberrier
• strawberriest
• strawberrying
• strawberried

Synonyms for strawberry

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Use strawberry when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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