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单词 barren strawberry
释义

barren /barˈən/

adjective
  1. Incapable of bearing offspring
  2. Not producing fruit, seed, crops, vegetation, etc
  3. Infertile
  4. Unproductive, unfruitful (lit and figurative)
  5. Arid, jejune
  6. Lacking in, devoid of (with of)
  7. Dull, stupid (Shakespeare)
noun

(in pl) in N America, plateaux with shrubs, etc but no timber

ORIGIN: OFr barain, brahain, brehaing

barrˈenness noun

barren strawberry noun

A plant (Potentilla fragariastrum) very like the wild strawberry, but with inedible fruit

barrˈenwort noun

A herb (genus Epimedium) of the barberry family

strawberry /ströˈb(ə-)ri/

noun
  1. The fruit (botanically the enlarged receptacle) of any species of the rosaceous genus Fragaria, related to Potentilla
  2. The plant bearing it
adjective

Of the colour (pinkish-red) or flavour of strawberries

ORIGIN: OE strēawberige, poss from the chaffy appearance of the achenes

strawberry blonde noun and adjective

(a woman with hair that is) reddish-yellow

strawberry cactus noun

A clump-forming cactus, Mammillaria prolifera, with pale yellow flowers and red strawberry-flavoured berries

strawberry leaf noun

  1. The leaf of the strawberry plant
  2. Symbolically (esp in pl) the rank of duke or duchess, from the ornaments like strawberry leaves on a duke's (also a marquess's or earl's) coronet

strawberry mark noun

A reddish birthmark

strawberry roan noun

A horse with a reddish-brown coat flecked with white

strawberry shrub noun

Calycanthus

strawberry tomato noun

The Cape gooseberry

strawberry tree noun

Arbutus unedo, a small tree of the heath family with red berries

barren strawberry

A plant of the genus Potentilla, distinguished from the wild strawberry by its dry fruit

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