Definition of Chilean strawberry

1. Noun. Wild strawberry of western United States and South America; source of many varieties of cultivated strawberries.

Exact synonyms: Beach Strawberry, Fragaria Chiloensis
Group relationships: Fragaria, Genus Fragaria
Generic synonyms: Strawberry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chilean Strawberry

Chilean cedar
Chilean eagle
Chilean eagles
Chilean firebush
Chilean flameflower
Chilean flamingo
Chilean flamingos
Chilean hazelnut
Chilean jasmine
Chilean monetary unit
Chilean nut
Chilean peso
Chilean rimu
Chilean salad
Chilean saltpeter
Chilean strawberry (current term)
Chilean tinamou
Chilean tinamous
Chileanism
Chileans
Chilian
Chilians
Chilipoda
Chiloe
Chilomastix
Chilomeniscus
Chilomeniscus cinctus
Chilomycterus
Chilopoda
Chilopsis

Literary usage of Chilean strawberry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modern Strawberry Growing by Albert Edmund Wilkinson (1913)
"Candolle, and Guy, that it is an absolute modification of the Chilean strawberry. The other was brought forth by Decaisne, and quite readily accepted by ..."

2. Plant Inventory by Agricultural Research Center-West (U.S.), United States Division of Botany, Horticultural Crops Research Branch, Agricultural Research Service, United States Dept. of Agriculture, United States, United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Northeastern Regi (1922)
"This is a selected strain of the common Chilean strawberry, said to produce fruits of ... Frutilla blanca de Chile, or white Chilean strawberry. ..."

3. General Botany for Universities and Colleges by Hiram Delos Densmore (1920)
"... ascribes the origin of our present varieties of cultivated strawberries to the improvement of a wild species from Chile, known a\ the Chilean strawberry ..."

4. How Plants are Trained to Work for Man by Luther Burbank (1921)
"The later hybridizations, through which the perfected strawberries were finally secured, have involved crossing the Chilean strawberry with the small wild ..."

5. Forget Not Mee & My Garden...": Selected Letters, 1725-1768, of Peter by Peter Collinson (2002)
"Chilean strawberry, (Fragaria chiloensis). In 1727 Philip Miller introduced some plants from Amsterdam, whence they had come from Chile by way of France. ..."

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