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Fragaria

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prop. n.1.a genus of plants comprising the strawberry plants.
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Noun1.Fragaria - strawberriesFragaria - strawberries                        
rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants
family Rosaceae, Rosaceae, rose family - a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens
strawberry - 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
beach strawberry, Chilean strawberry, Fragaria chiloensis - wild strawberry of western United States and South America; source of many varieties of cultivated strawberries
Fragaria virginiana, scarlet strawberry, Virginia strawberry - North American wild strawberry with sweet scarlet fruit; a source of many cultivated strawberries


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The Virginia strawberry, Fragaria virginiana, a wild species was exported from the United States colony in the 1600''s to England, where it was favorable in taste, quality, size, and yields over the native European strawberry.
The familiar cultivated strawberry is actually an accidental hybrid of two species: Fragaria virginiana, from the eastern seaboard states, and Fragaria chiloensis, a native of Chile.
 
 
 
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