strawberry Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun sweet fleshy red fruit
  2. noun 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. noun a soft red birthmark
    strawberry mark; hemangioma simplex.

WordNet

Straw"ber*ry noun
Etymology
AS. streáwberige; streáw straw + berie berry; perhaps from the resemblance of the runners of the plant to straws.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A fragrant edible berry, of a delicious taste and commonly of a red color, the fruit of a plant of the genus Fragaria, of which there are many varieties. Also, the plant bearing the fruit. The common American strawberry is Fragaria virginiana; the European, F. vesca. There are also other less common species.

Webster 1913