strawberry

Meanings

Plural: strawberries

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
• The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.
• Any plant of the genus Fragaria (that bears such fruit).
• The berry of the strawberry tree (Arbutus)
• A dark pinkish red color, like that of the fruit; strawberry red.
• Something resembling a strawberry, especially a reddish bruise, birthmark, or infantile hemangioma (naevus).
• A prostitute who exchanges sexual services for crack cocaine.

Adj

• Containing or having the flavor of strawberries.
• Flavored with ethyl methylphenylglycidate, an artificial compound which is said to resemble the taste of strawberries.
• Of a color similar to the color of strawberry-flavoured products.

Verb

• To gather strawberries.
• To turn a dark pinkish-red.

Synonyms

earthberry, hemangioma simplex, strawb, strawberry mark, strawberryish, strawberrylike

Related Words

arbutus, blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, Carolina allspice, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hautboy, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermilion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine

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