noun
wild strawberry of western United States and South America; source of many varieties of cultivated strawberries
• Syn: ↑beach strawberry, ↑Fragaria chiloensis
• Hypernyms: ↑strawberry
• Member Holonyms: ↑Fragaria, ↑genus Fragaria
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nounUsage: usually capitalized C
: a New World strawberry (Fragaria chiloensis) from a variety of which (F. chiloensis ananassa) many of the common cultivated strawberries originated — called also beach strawberry
Useful english dictionary. 2012.