wild strawberry

noun

1

: an uncultivated plant of the genus Fragaria: such as

a

: a European plant (F. vesca) naturalized or native in North America having luscious red or rarely white fruit and being one of the species used in breeding the common garden strawberry

b

: virginia strawberry

c

: chilean strawberry

2

: the fruit of a wild strawberry plant

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