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STRAWBERRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A soft red birthmark
Synonyms:
hemangioma simplex; strawberry; strawberry mark
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("strawberry" is a kind of...):
birthmark; nevus (a blemish on the skin that is formed before birth)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Sweet fleshy red fruit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("strawberry" is a kind of...):
berry (any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves)
Holonyms ("strawberry" is a part of...):
cultivated strawberry; Fragaria ananassa; garden strawberry (widely cultivated)
Sense 3
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("strawberry" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "strawberry"):
cultivated strawberry; Fragaria ananassa; garden strawberry (widely cultivated)
Fragaria vesca; wild strawberry; wood strawberry (Europe)
beach strawberry; Chilean strawberry; Fragaria chiloensis (wild strawberry of western United States and South America; source of many varieties of cultivated strawberries)
Fragaria virginiana; scarlet strawberry; Virginia strawberry (North American wild strawberry with sweet scarlet fruit; a source of many cultivated strawberries)
Holonyms ("strawberry" is a member of...):
Fragaria; genus Fragaria (strawberries)
Context examples:
Visual stimuli included objects that have a characteristic color (oranges, strawberries, tomatoes), objects with arbitrary color (Legos, toy cars), and in-person actors representing a diversity of skin colors.
(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)
In Bilbao-Sainz's testing, adding 3.5 percent of either strawberry, raspberry or blackberry freeze‐dried powder reduced the water available for ice crystal formation during stirring and freezing, preventing crystal growth and slowing melting.
(Freeze-Dried Strawberries and Ice Cream Make for a Very Stable Relationship, Agricultural Research Service)
The blanc mange was lumpy, and the strawberries not as ripe as they looked, having been skilfully 'deaconed'.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“That may be done without horses. Come, and eat my strawberries. They are ripening fast.”
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The hypothesis was that study participants’ memory-based assumptions about color — oranges are orange, strawberries are red — would subtly influence color selection under LPS lighting, with arbitrarily colored objects such as Legos serving as the control.
(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)
Freeze-dried strawberry powder is so effective a stabilizer that frozen dairy desserts with it included will maintain their shape even after reaching room temperature, according to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) research food technologist Cristina Bilbao-Sainz with the Healthy Processed Foods Research Unit in Albany, California.
(Freeze-Dried Strawberries and Ice Cream Make for a Very Stable Relationship, Agricultural Research Service)
The dream of filling home with comforts, giving Beth everything she wanted, from strawberries in winter to an organ in her bedroom, going abroad herself, and always having more than enough, so that she might indulge in the luxury of charity, had been for years Jo's most cherished castle in the air.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The whole party were assembled, excepting Frank Churchill, who was expected every moment from Richmond; and Mrs. Elton, in all her apparatus of happiness, her large bonnet and her basket, was very ready to lead the way in gathering, accepting, or talking—strawberries, and only strawberries, could now be thought or spoken of.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
We discovered that some of the freeze-dried fruit powders—especially strawberries—completely prevent the melt-down of dairy frozen desserts similar to ice cream made with whole milk, whole whipping cream, sugar and skim milk powder, Bilbao-Sainz said.
(Freeze-Dried Strawberries and Ice Cream Make for a Very Stable Relationship, Agricultural Research Service)
The walk revived her spirits, and flattering herself that she had made good bargains, she trudged home again, after buying a very young lobster, some very old asparagus, and two boxes of acid strawberries.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
