christmasberry

1. 1.

   spiny evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having spreading branches usually blue or mauve flowers and red berries

   SynonymsChristmas berryLycium carolinianum

   Broadershrub

   Part ofLycium
2. 2.

   ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits; often placed in genus Photinia

   SynonymstoyontollonChristmas berryHeteromeles arbutifoliaPhotinia arbutifolia

   Broadershrub

   Part ofHeteromeles

Other forms of christmasberry

plural

christmasberries·

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 christmasberry

What does christmasberry mean?

christmasberry means "spiny evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having spreading branches usually blue or mauve flowers and red berries". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in christmasberry?

christmasberry has 4 syllables: christ-mas-ber-ry. The stress falls on "mas".

What is another word for christmasberry?

Close synonyms include Christmas berry, Lycium carolinianum, toyon, tollon, Christmas berry. 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 christmasberry a common word?

christmasberry 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.