groundberry

Other forms of groundberry

plural

groundberries·

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 groundberry

What does groundberry mean?

groundberry 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 groundberry?

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

What is another word for groundberry?

Close synonyms include native cranberry, ground-berry, 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 groundberry a common word?

groundberry 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.