bloodberry

Questions about bloodberry

What does bloodberry mean?

bloodberry means "bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas".

How many syllables are in bloodberry?

bloodberry has 3 syllables and divides as blood-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 bloodberry?

Close synonyms include blood berry, rougeberry, rouge plant, Rivina humilis. 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 bloodberry a common word?

bloodberry is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.