Meaning of earthberry | Babel Free

Definitions

A berry whose fruit lies upon the ground, in particular the strawberry (plant and fruit)

nonstandard, rare

Examples

“The berries of the islands are sweet black currants, cranberries or goosh, strawberries and earthberries, together with the diddy, mountain, and malvina berries common to the Falkland Islands.”

“One time, the poor man had had no bread in the cupboard for a whole week, and the family lived on roots and stewed earthberries.”

“Wild Strawberries (Fragaria virginiana): A member of the rose family, the strawberry also has the nickname earthberry. No one could mistake this plant's succulent red and juicy berries.”

“It didn't take long for the waves of heat to reach him, and with them came the scents of tempanuts, earthberries, and honey.”

“One evening in Norway we had earthberries and cream just as Mr Haythornthwaite, the Englishman who visited our town when I was a child, would have had in Norway in the nine-teen-twenties.”

“The Portuguese word is also a mystery. In northern Europe it is simply the earth-berry due to the plant's habit of creeping along the ground.”

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