red bearberry

Questions about red bearberry

What does red bearberry mean?

red bearberry means "evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn".

What is another word for red bearberry?

Close synonyms include common bearberry, wild cranberry, mealberry, hog cranberry, sand berry. 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 red bearberry a common word?

red bearberry 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.