strawberries

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The fruit got a stage further this time, a beautiful rich red colour, but on closer inspection the strawberries were almost hollowed out by ants.

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  1. noun Any of various low-growing plants of the genus Fragaria, having white flowers and an aggregate fruit that consists of a red fleshy edible receptacle and numerous seedlike fruitlets.
  2. noun The aggregate fruit of this plant.
  3. adjective Containing or having the flavor of strawberries.

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  • In this I cooked some apples, quartered, and stewed till soft, and just as an experiment added a saucerful of strawberries. —  The Suffrage Cook Book
  • I heard Mr. Hardman tell the butcher that he needed someone to help pick his late strawberries, and he'll pay five cents a quart. —  At the Little Brown House
  • We've often picked strawberries, and it isn't very hard work--just hot and mon-mon--I can't think of the rest of that word It's just as well," answered Cherry, with unconscious sarcasm. —  At the Little Brown House
  • You keep this dollar and fifty cents for your work last summer, and when the strawberries are ripe again, we'll see about your picking some more to pay for the spoiled ones. —  At the Little Brown House
  • At length she remembered that some one had said that the strawberries were ripe, and that her mother had longed exceedingly for a dish of strawberries and cream. —  Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
 

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