earthberry

词形变化

earthberries 复数 earthberries

别名

earth-berry

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

    罕用

    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.

词源

From earth + berry. First attested in the 1800s, mostly in texts about or translated from German or other languages which use similar terms, of which it is likely a calque: German Erdbeere, Dutch aardbei, Danish jordbær, etc. Compare Old English eorþberġe (“strawberry”, literally “earthberry”). Also compare Polish poziomka, Russian земляни́ка (zemljaníka) (related to земля́ (zemljá)).

来源：wiktionary