Fruit

Fruit: "A fruit is the matured ovary of a flower, containing the seed." or to put it another way, "a fleshy covering of seeds."

Strawberry is not really a berry, and may not be a fruit, depending on whom you ask. (Then again, lots of things you don't think of as berries really are, for example your many-seeded berries such as cucumbers, bananas, and watermelon. These are called "pepos," at least by botanists.) The strawberry is the enlarged end of the plant stamen,although it is sometimes classified as an aggregate fruit (a fruit that develops from several ovaries of a single flower).

The strawberry is, in technical terms, an aggregate accessory fruit, meaning that the fleshy part is derived not from the plant's ovaries but from the "receptacle" that holds the ovaries. Each apparent "seed" on the outside of the fruit is actually one of the ovaries of the flower, with a seed inside it.  In both culinary and botanical terms, the entire structure is considered a fruit.

Strawberries do not normally reproduce by seeds. When the fruit is developing, the plant sends out slender growths called runners, also called clones that look like strings. They grow on the ground and send out roots in the soil. The roots produce new plants which grow and bear fruit.