Sekirov Dictionary

strawberry

UK /ˈstɹɔːb(ə)ɹi/US /ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/

noun 7
adjective 3
verb 2
forms 5

noun7

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The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.
- They went to pick strawberries today.
•
Any plant of the genus Fragaria (that bears such fruit).
- She has the best strawberry patch I've ever seen.
A dark pinkish red color, like that of the fruit; strawberry red.
•
Something resembling a strawberry, especially a reddish bruise, birthmark, or infantile hemangioma (naevus).
- strawberry marks
A butt plug with one end shaped like a strawberry fruit.
•
(US, slang) 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 — 1987
The berry of the strawberry tree (Arbutus)

adjective3

•
Containing or having the flavor of strawberries.
- I'd like a large strawberry shake.
Flavored with ethyl methylphenylglycidate, an artificial compound which is said to resemble the taste of strawberries.
•
Of a color similar to the color of strawberry-flavoured products.
- The strawberry lipstick matched his outfit.

verb2

•
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. — 1994
•
To turn a dark pinkish-red.
- My hips and elbows were strawberrying painfully. — 1986

forms

strawberried · strawberrying · strawberries · strawberrier · strawberriest

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