fraise
- noun
- /frɛz/
- For breakfast, she added sliced fraises to her yogurt for extra sweetness.
- fraises du bois
Examples
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These fraises are perfect for making jam.
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I bought a fresh fraise from the market.
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The chef decorated the cake with a single fresh fraise on top.
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She ordered a tart filled with cream and sliced fraise at the French bakery.
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At the market, he bought a basket of ripe fraise for dessert.
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We enjoyed a refreshing dessert topped with fresh fraise and whipped cream.
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The market was filled with vibrant boxes of fraises, perfect for making jam.
Synonyms
A small sweet red fruit that grows wild on a low plant
A low plant that makes sweet red fruit people eat fresh or in desserts
A garden strawberry plant grown for its large edible red fruit
A small wild plant that makes soft sweet red fruit often found in woods
A small wild plant that makes sweet red berries
A wild North American plant that makes small sweet red berries used to breed garden varieties
A wild strawberry plant from the Pacific coast used to breed cultivated strawberries
Compounds
How Ripe
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fraise is simply the French word fraise meaning 'strawberry', and English borrows it in cooking and fancy names. So when you see fraise on a menu it just means a strawberry.