Other forms: strawberries
A strawberry is a small red summer fruit with tiny seeds on its skin. Strawberries and cream, pick strawberries, a strawberry field.
It is not a berry: the red part is swollen stem tissue and the true fruits are the little pips on the outside, each one a separate fruit. The name is old and unexplained — the straw may be the runners, the scattered seeds, or the straw laid under the plants.
1nounstrawberryA small red summer fruit with seeds on its skin.
“We picked strawberries at a farm and ate them with cream.”
strawberry is a fruit.
Old English streawberge is straw plus berry. Why straw is not settled, and several explanations compete.
Middle English
strawberie
English, today
strawberry
From Middle English strawberie. From Middle English strawberie, strawbery, from Old English strēawberġe, corresponding to straw + berry. Of various theories advanced to explain the name, the two most plausible are:
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA