ETYM AS. streáwberige; streáw straw + berie berry; perhaps from the resemblance of the runners of the plant to straws.
1. A soft red birthmark; SYN. strawberry mark, hemangioma simplex.
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. Sweet fleshy red fruit.
Low-growing perennial plant of the genus Fragaria, family Rosaceae, widely cultivated for its red, fleshy fruits, which are rich in vitamin C. Wild strawberry F. virginiana has small aromatic fruits and grows over much of the eastern half of North America. Cultivated strawberries are hybrids between North American wild species and European species. straw-berry. + prikaži više