crampbark

Other forms of crampbark

plural

crampbarks·

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 crampbark

What does crampbark mean?

crampbark means "deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries".

How many syllables are in crampbark?

crampbark has 2 syllables and divides as cramp-bark 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 crampbark?

Close synonyms include guelder rose, European cranberrybush, European cranberry bush, cranberry tree, Viburnum opulus. 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 crampbark a common word?

crampbark 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.