boxberry

Other forms of boxberry

plural

boxberries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about boxberry

What does boxberry mean?

boxberry means "creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in boxberry?

boxberry has 3 syllables and divides as box-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 boxberry?

Close synonyms include partridgeberry, twinberry, Mitchella repens, wintergreen, checkerberry. 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 boxberry a common word?

boxberry 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.