strawberry

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Starting from the business then on hand, Smith said that fruit was his favourite diet at that season of the year, and that Scotland produced excellent strawberries, for the strawberry was a northern fruit, and was at its best in Orkney or Sweden.

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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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  • Now a swirl of strawberry, and as my friend Lesley comes into the bar I call out to her, "hey look, they have kiwi today!" —  Taipei Times
  • In theory balsamic and strawberry is a classic combination, however, this strawberry sauce was thin, lacked punch, and only watered down the reduced balsamic vinegar. —  Vue Weekly
  • I've made chocolate from cocoa powder, strawberry, strawberry-banana, peach, and maple-walnut. —  Random feeds from Syndic8.com
  • As you can see, that's what banana, strawberry, and shaven bull testicle boxes would look like there. —  Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome
  • They appear together all the time in nature-a strawberry, a poppy, a bottlebrush tree-which makes them perfect for spring decorating, not just for holiday cheer. —  Apartment Therapy Main
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  1. Middle English, from Old English strēawberige : strēaw, straw; see straw + berige, berie, berry; see berry.

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  1. from Middle English strawbery, strauberi, strabery, straberi, strebery, streberi, strebere, also (in comp.) strawbyry, strobery, from Anglo-Saxon streáwberie, streáwberige, also contracted streáberie, streáberige, streáberge, also streówberge, streuberie, late Anglo-Saxon strǣberie (in comp.), strawberry (also called eorthberie, German erdbeere, ‘earth-berry’), from streáw, straw. + berie, berry: see straw and berry. The first element, literally ‘straw,’ is very rare in Anglo-Saxon use, and its exact application here is uncertain. It may be taken in the sense of ‘a long stem,’ referring to the runners of the plant, or it may allude to an old habit of stringing the berries on a straw. The word is often erroneously explained as a corruption of a supposed *strayberry, or even as referring to the common use of straw or hay about the plants to keep the earth from soiling the berries. No corresponding name appears in the other languages. Cf. strawberry-wise.
 

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