(n.) A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and similar in shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone. Now more commonly called oboe. See Illust. of Oboe.
(n.) A sort of strawberry (Fragaria elatior).
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Strawberry
Definition:
(n.) A fragrant edible berry, of a delicious taste and commonly of a red color, the fruit of a plant of the genus Fragaria, of which there are many varieties. Also, the plant bearing the fruit. The common American strawberry is Fragaria virginiana; the European, F. vesca. There are also other less common species.
Example Sentences:
(1) Often, flavorings such as chocolate and strawberry and sugars are added to low-fat and skim milk to make up for the loss of taste when the fat is removed.
(2) Erik Erikson used the film character of Dr. Borg from Wild Strawberries to flesh out his life cycle conception of ego integrity versus despair in old age.
(3) On Monday Tesco was selling 454g punnets of British strawberries for £2.
(4) The nucleotides from a trichloroacetic acid extract of mature strawberry leaves were separated into ten main fractions by chromatography on a Dowex 1 (formate form) column with ammonium formate as the eluting agent.
(5) Jane's favourite combos are: rhubarb and strawberry, rhubarb and raspberry, and plum and blackberry.
(6) I picked the strawberries growing up the side of my compost loo for breakfast; physalis and ferns were growing inside my shower; I snacked on pitanga, a delicious sweet-sour berry.
(7) In 12 months just about every regular professional player outside the Iron Curtain (whose national federations paradoxically denied any truck with unions) had signed up with the ATP but the ILTF confidently fancied it could split the union's confraternity at this very first challenge simply because every player wanted to compete in the "world championship", that is on the strawberry fields of London SW19.
(8) Such problems may vary from a simple strawberry hemangioma to the most complex deformity involving the entire facial skeleton and soft tissue.
(9) 30.37% no angina and 40% no strawberry-like tongue.
(10) The strawberry hemangioma had been treated in infancy with dry ice.
(11) At the height of the harvesting season, between October and July, an estimated 6,000 migrants are employed as strawberry pickers for wages that no Greek, despite record levels of unemployment, would ever accept.
(12) All samples were strawberry-flavored and were evaluated by 88 judges.
(13) The relative standard deviation for repeated determinations of carminic acid in a commercial strawberry-flavored yogurt was 3.0%.
(14) The strawberries are extracted with acetone, and the filtrate is partioned with a mixture of methylene chloride and petroleum ether followed by further extraction with methylene chloride.
(15) According to the t-test for paired means, cola beverages and orange beverages differed from beer, coffee with or without sugar, strawberry yoghurt, buttermilk, and carbonated mineral water at the level P less than 0.01.
(16) His tasting menu runs like a list of ingredients and inspirations: Lindisfarne; razor clam; grouse; spring lamb; strawberry.
(17) The Dream smells like peppermint but tastes like strawberry shortcake.
(18) It was good for the product with strawberry flavor, but it was even better for the sample without flavor which had been previously washed.
(19) Clinical mass surveys were carried out on the residents to whom questionnaires on symptoms with reference to strawberry culture in the vinyl-house had been delivered.
(20) Aureobasidium (Pullularia) recovery occurred in different locations according to season, correlating somewhat with the cabbage harvest as well as with the harvest of strawberries.