foxberry

Other forms of foxberry

plural

foxberries·

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 foxberry

What does foxberry mean?

foxberry means "low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries".

How many syllables are in foxberry?

foxberry has 3 syllables and divides as fox-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 foxberry?

Close synonyms include cowberry, mountain cranberry, lingonberry, lingenberry, lingberry. 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 foxberry a common word?

foxberry 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.