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Definition of Fragaria
1. Noun. Strawberries.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Rosaceae, Rosaceae, Rose Family
Member holonyms: Strawberry, Cultivated Strawberry, Fragaria Ananassa, Garden Strawberry, Fragaria Vesca, Wild Strawberry, Wood Strawberry, Beach Strawberry, Chilean Strawberry, Fragaria Chiloensis, Fragaria Virginiana, Scarlet Strawberry, Virginia Strawberry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fragaria
Literary usage of Fragaria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1880)
"Fragaria Illinoensis, Prince. North America. Hovey's Seedling and the Boston kind
from ... Fragaria vesca, Linne. Naturally very widely dispersed over the ..."
2. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. by Massachusetts Horticultural Society, James Englebert Teschemacher, W.D. Ticknor & Co (1888)
"Figures occur as in the following list: 1484. Fragaria. ... Fragaria. Dorst., Dot.
131. 1542. Fragaria major et minor. Fuel)., 853 ; ib., 1551, 808. 1550. ..."
3. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1798)
"Fragaria elatior. Ehrh. Beitr.fasc. 7. 23. If Hid. Sp. PI. v. 2. 1091. ...
This Fragaria appears to have been confounded by modern European botanists in ..."
4. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by William Baxter by William Baxter (1839)
"210, that at the Hague, Leyden, and Haarlem, the native species, Fragaria vesca,
is preferred for culture, and is there very generally known by the name of ..."