Fragaria

noun

strawberries

• Syn: ↑genus Fragaria

• Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Rosaceae, ↑family Rosaceae, ↑rose family

• Member Meronyms:

↑strawberry, ↑garden strawberry, ↑cultivated strawberry, ↑Fragaria ananassa, ↑wild strawberry, ↑wood strawberry, ↑Fragaria vesca, ↑beach strawberry, ↑Chilean strawberry, ↑Fragaria chiloensis, ↑Virginia strawberry, ↑scarlet strawberry, ↑Fragaria virginiana

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\\frəˈga(a)rēə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin fragum strawberry + New Latin -aria

: a small genus of low perennial herbs (family Rosaceae) that comprise the strawberries, have trifoliate leaves, cymose white flowers, and long slender runners, and are represented in cultivation mainly by horticultural forms derived from several wild species (as F. vesca, F. virginiana, F. chiloensis, F. moschata) and including many hybrids of these — see chilean strawberry, strawberry, wood strawberry

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Fragaria /frə-gāˈri-ə/

noun

The strawberry genus

ORIGIN: L frāgum the strawberry