longanberry

Other forms of longanberry

plural

longanberries·

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 longanberry

What does longanberry mean?

longanberry means "tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in longanberry?

longanberry has 4 syllables: lon-gan-ber-ry. The stress falls on "gan".

What is another word for longanberry?

Close synonyms include longan, lungen, Dimocarpus longan, Euphorbia litchi, Nephelium longana. 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 longanberry a common word?

longanberry 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.