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cultivated strawberry

cultivated strawberry

2.8
A strawberry plant people grow for its large fruit you can eat
  • noun
  • /ˈkʌltɪˌveɪtɪd ˈstrɔːbəri/
translation icon : fresa cultivada
  • The flavor of the cultivated strawberry differs from that of many wild varieties.

Examples

  • The cultivated strawberry is sweeter than wild varieties.

  • Farmers prefer to grow the cultivated strawberry because of its large fruit size and high yield.

  • The cultivated strawberry is commonly sold in supermarkets around the world.

  • Many farmers grow cultivated strawberries in the summer.

  • The gardener planted rows of cultivated strawberries in the sunny patch of his garden.

  • During the summer, we enjoyed picking fresh cultivated strawberries from the local farm.

  • Many recipes call for cultivated strawberries because of their sweet flavor and juicy texture.

Synonyms

Fragaria ananassa
vscultivated strawberry
  • Specialized
7.1

A garden strawberry plant grown for its large edible red fruit

is the broader species term used for that widely grown edible plant
garden strawberry
vscultivated strawberry
1.0

A low plant that makes sweet red fruit people eat fresh or in desserts

is the scientific species concept often named in formal descriptions

Antonyms

wild strawberry
  • UK
1 1.8

A small sweet red fruit that grows wild on a low plant

Surface Forms

cultivated strawberry singular
cultivated strawberries plural

Morphology

cultivated + strawberry

This is a simple adjectival noun phrase where 'cultivated' (intentionally grown/tended) modifies 'strawberry', so the meaning — a strawberry grown under cultivation — is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents. There is no idiomatic shift or metaphor, and the same structure is common across many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

Cultivated strawberry comes from farmers and gardeners who mixed different wild strawberries to make a bigger, sweeter fruit. The word cultivated means 'grown by people' and strawberry is the fruit, so the phrase now means the strawberries people grow and sell.