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Noun: strawberry  'stro,be-ree [N. Amer], stro-bu-ree [Brit]
  1. Sweet fleshy red fruit
     
  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. A soft red birthmark
    - strawberry mark, hemangioma simplex
     
  4. A red colour, like that of the fruit

Derived forms: strawberries

Type of: berry, birthmark, herb, herbaceous plant, naevus [Brit, Cdn], nevus [N. Amer], red, redness

Part of: cultivated strawberry, Fragaria, Fragaria ananassa, garden strawberry, genus Fragaria

Encyclopedia: Strawberry, Marin County, California