Noun: strawberry 'stro,be-ree [N. Amer], stro-bu-ree [Brit]
- Sweet fleshy red fruit
"The children enjoyed picking strawberries at the local farm"
- 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
"Children delighted in picking ripe strawberries from the garden patch"
- A soft red birthmark
"The baby was born with a strawberry mark on her cheek";
- strawberry mark, hemangioma simplex
- A red colour, like that of the fruit
"She painted her room a soft strawberry shade"
Derived forms: strawberries
Type of: berry, birthmark, herb, herbaceous plant, naevus [Brit, Cdn], nevus [N. Amer], red, redness
Part of: cultivated strawberry, Fragaria, Fragaria ananassa, garden strawberry, genus Fragaria
Encyclopedia: Strawberry, Marin County, California