cloudberry

Questions about cloudberry

What does cloudberry mean?

cloudberry means "creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries".

How many syllables are in cloudberry?

cloudberry has 3 syllables and divides as cloud-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 cloudberry?

Close synonyms include dwarf mulberry, bakeapple, baked-apple berry, salmonberry, Rubus chamaemorus. 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 cloudberry a common word?

cloudberry 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.