partridgeberry

1. 1.

   creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries

   SynonymsboxberrytwinberryMitchella repens

   Broadervine

   Part ofMitchella

Other forms of partridgeberry

plural

partridgeberries·

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 partridgeberry

What does partridgeberry mean?

partridgeberry means "creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries".

How many syllables are in partridgeberry?

partridgeberry has 5 syllables: par-trid-ge-ber-ry. The stress falls on "ge".

What is another word for partridgeberry?

Close synonyms include boxberry, twinberry, Mitchella repens. 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 partridgeberry a common word?

partridgeberry is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.