noun
earthberry
Earthberry (noun) means a berry that grows close to the ground, especially the strawberry.
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A berry that grows close to the ground, especially the strawberry.
"It didn't take long for the waves of heat to reach him, and with them came the scents of tempanuts, earthberries, and honey."
— Lena Horn, The Celestial Saga: Forgotten Fox (2012)
"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."
— Desmond Hogan, Farewell to Prague (2013)
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Etymology
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)).
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What is the meaning of earthberry?
"earthberry" (noun) means a berry that grows close to the ground, especially the strawberry.
