maleberry

Questions about maleberry

What does maleberry mean?

maleberry means "deciduous much-branched shrub with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers".

How many syllables are in maleberry?

maleberry has 4 syllables and divides as ma-le-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 maleberry?

Close synonyms include male berry, privet andromeda, he-huckleberry, Lyonia ligustrina. 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 maleberry a common word?

maleberry 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.