(Homonym: bury).
1. A pulpy and usually edible small fruit having any of various structures: e.g. strawberry or raspberry or blueberry.
2. Any of numerous small edible pulpy fruits either simple (grape; blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry; raspberry).
Fleshy, many-seeded fruit that does not split open to release the seeds. The outer layer of tissue, the exocarp, forms an outer skin that is often brightly colored to attract birds to eat the fruit and thus disperse the seeds. Examples of berries are the tomato and the grape.
A pepo is a type of berry that has developed a hard exterior, such as the cucumber fruit. Another is the hesperidium, which has a thick, leathery outer layer, such as that found in citrus fruits, and fluid-containing vesicles within, which form the segments.

ETYM AS. streáwberige; streáw straw + berie berry; perhaps from the resemblance of the runners of the plant to straws.
1. A soft red birthmark; SYN. strawberry mark, hemangioma simplex.
2. 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.
3. Sweet fleshy red fruit.
Low-growing perennial plant of the genus Fragaria, family Rosaceae, widely cultivated for its red, fleshy fruits, which are rich in vitamin C. Wild strawberry F. virginiana has small aromatic fruits and grows over much of the eastern half of North America. Cultivated strawberries are hybrids between North American wild species and European species. straw-berry.