coffeeberry

Questions about coffeeberry

What does coffeeberry mean?

coffeeberry means "evergreen shrub of western United States bearing small red or black fruits".

How many syllables are in coffeeberry?

coffeeberry has 4 syllables and divides as cof-fee-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 coffeeberry?

Close synonyms include California buckthorn, California coffee, Rhamnus californicus. 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 coffeeberry a common word?

coffeeberry 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.