blaeberry

Questions about blaeberry

What does blaeberry mean?

blaeberry means "erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries".

How many syllables are in blaeberry?

blaeberry has 4 syllables and divides as bla-e-ber-ry under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for blaeberry?

Close synonyms include bilberry, whortleberry, whinberry, Viccinium myrtillus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blaeberry a common word?

blaeberry is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.