ground-berry

Questions about ground-berry

What does ground-berry mean?

ground-berry means "small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ground-berry?

ground-berry has 3 syllables: ground--ber-ry. The stress falls on "ground-".

What is another word for ground-berry?

Close synonyms include native cranberry, groundberry, cranberry heath, Astroloma humifusum, Styphelia humifusum. 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 ground-berry a common word?

ground-berry 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.