dangle-berry

1. 1.

   huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit

   SynonymsdangleberryGaylussacia frondosa

   Broaderhuckleberry

Questions about dangle-berry

What does dangle-berry mean?

dangle-berry means "huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit".

How many syllables are in dangle-berry?

dangle-berry has 4 syllables: dan-gle--ber-ry. The stress falls on "gle-".

What is another word for dangle-berry?

Close synonyms include dangleberry, Gaylussacia frondosa. 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 dangle-berry a common word?

dangle-berry 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.