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OP Though I have picked strawberries many times, I never saw this word before.
sarmentose
adj.
L sarmentosus, full of twigs < sarmentum, twig < sarpere, to trim, cut off < IE base *ser(p)3, sickle > Gr harpc, Latvian sirpis6 producing long, slender stems which take root along the ground, as the strawberry plant
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