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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
cowberry is a noun meaning "low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries". It carries 2 recorded senses.
low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cowberry come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.