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Definition of Chilean strawberry
1. Noun. Wild strawberry of western United States and South America; source of many varieties of cultivated strawberries.
Group relationships: Fragaria, Genus Fragaria
Generic synonyms: Strawberry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chilean Strawberry
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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