strawberry

Any of various low-growing plants of the genus Fragaria of the rose family, having white flowers and an aggregate fruit that consists of numerous one-seeded achenes embedded in a fleshy red receptacle.

The edible fruit of any of these plants, especially the cultivated species F. ×ananassa.

Containing or having the flavor of strawberries.

The fruit of any of the species of the genus Fragaria, or the plant itself.

The strawberry-blite, Blitum capitatum.

A fragrant edible berry, of a delicious taste and commonly of a red color, the fruit of a plant of the genus Fragaria, of which there are many varieties. Also, the plant bearing the fruit. The common American strawberry is Fragaria virginiana; the European, F. vesca. There are also other less common species.

See Calico bass, under Calico.

See under Blite.

The crown borer (Tyloderma fragariæ), a small brown weevil whose larva burrows in the crown and kills the plant.

an American shrub (Euonymus Americanus), a kind of spindle tree having crimson pods and the seeds covered with a scarlet aril.