strawberry leafn.
a. The leaf of the strawberry plant. Also, †the plant itself (obsolete). Also attributive.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > strawberry plant
strawberryc1000
strawberry wisec1000
strawberry leafa1300
strawberry tree1548
strawberry vine1869
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > strawberry plant > parts of
strawberry wire1601
strawberry leaf1893
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 350 Streawbergean leaf.]
a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 558/28 Fraga, i. fraser, i. streberilef.
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. D.iiv Fragraria is called in english a strawbery leafe, whose fruite is called in englishe a strawbery.
1893 Morning Post 8 Mar. 8/2 Another rosaceous pest is the little strawberry-leaf beetle.
b. In allusion to the row of conventional figures of the leaf on the coronet of a duke, marquis, or earl.
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society > society and the community > social class > symbol of rank > [noun] > specific emblem of peerage
coroneta1513
ermine1816
strawberry leaf1827
society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > duke or duchess > [noun] > duke > sign or status of duke, marquis, or earl
strawberry leaf1827
1827 Moore New Creation of Peers 32 If coronets glistened with pills 'stead of pearls, And the strawberry-leaves were by rhubarb supplanted!
1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby II. v. iii. 246 Who, if he carried the county and the manufacturing borough also, merited the strawberry-leaf.
1875 J. Grant One of Six Hundred iv. 32 It was among the strawberry leaves she chiefly expected to find a husband for her daughter—a marquis at least.
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strawberry-leaved adj.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > duke or duchess > [adjective] > relating to dukes, marquises, or earls
strawberry-leaved1882
1882 R. Gower in Vanity Fair 6 May 253/1 The ducal strawberry-leaved land.
1894 K. Grahame Pagan Papers 107 Duchesses..rapt..from their strawberry-leaved surroundings.
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