strawberry

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.

   • They went to pick strawberries today.
   • Communication is a kind of beauty, he said – and “beauty manifests itself from the noun itself, without strawberries on the cake.”
   • Is there a sweeter time of year than strawberry season? As soon as the trees start bursting into pink buds, the first strawberries can’t be far behind at the farmers market.
2. 2

   Any plant of the genus Fragaria (that bears such fruit).

   • She has the best strawberry patch I've ever seen.
   • He told his father, and said it would be just suitable work for him to run about fields and woods amongst the strawberry hills after a flock of hares, and now and then lie down and take a nap on some sunny hill.
3. 3

   The berry of the strawberry tree (Arbutus)

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   1. 4

      A dark pinkish red color, like that of the fruit

      A dark pinkish red color, like that of the fruit; strawberry red.

   2. 5

      Something resembling a strawberry, especially a reddish bruise, birthmark, or infantile…

      Something resembling a strawberry, especially a reddish bruise, birthmark, or infantile hemangioma (naevus).

      • strawberry marks
      • I have stretch marks and strawberry legs [follicles or blocked pores that appear as black dots]^([sic]); discoloration all over my body.
   3. 6

      A prostitute who exchanges sexual services for crack cocaine.

      • Come home and see her mouth on the dopeman's dick / Strawberry, just look and you'll see her
      • […] infamous in Los Angeles through media reports: the crack houses and "strawberries" (women who exchange sex for crack) […]
      • I'm makin mo' deals than a strawberry might I'll lick your clit, if you suck my pipe
   4. 7

      A butt plug with one end shaped like a strawberry fruit.

   5. 8

      Containing or having the flavor of strawberries.

      • I'd like a large strawberry shake.
      • We sing you a song of the strawberriest Strawberry Ice Cream on earth.
      • At any rate, you will agree with me that this is the “strawberriest tastin’ ” pie that you’ve ever tasted.
   6. 9

      Flavored with ethyl methylphenylglycidate, an artificial compound which is said to…

      Flavored with ethyl methylphenylglycidate, an artificial compound which is said to resemble the taste of strawberries.

   7. 10

      Of a color similar to the color of strawberry-flavoured products.

      • The strawberry lipstick matched his outfit.
      • They are, at once, beautiful and curious, with their translucent white skin and strawberriest blond hair, looking like a group of Wagner’s Valkyrie lost in a Puccini opera.
   8. 11

      To gather strawberries.

      • We strawberried in Michigan woods with our fat nanny, and in spring we gathered sand dollars on Daytona, passed smiling into Kodachrome.
   9. 12

      To turn a dark pinkish-red.

      • My hips and elbows were strawberrying painfully.
   10. 13

       A census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States.

   11. 14

       A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California, United States.

   12. 15

       An unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California, United States.

   13. 16

       A surname

The neighborhood

• synonymearthberry
• synonymstrawb
• synonymstrawberryish
• synonymstrawberrylike
• neighborberry
• neighborfruit
• neighborarbutus
• neighborCarolina allspice
• neighborhautboy
• neighborStrawberry Hill
• neighborStrawberry Mountains
• neighborStrawberry Range