strawberry

noun (plural strawberries)

• 1a sweet soft red fruit with a seed-studded surface.

• 2the low-growing plant which produces the strawberry, having white flowers, lobed leaves, and runners, and found throughout north temperate regions.

  • Genus Fragaria, family Rosaceae; the commercial strawberry is usually F. × ananassa

• 3 [mass noun] a deep pinkish-red colour: [as modifier]:she thought she would wear the strawberry crushed velvet