red-berry

Questions about red-berry

What does red-berry mean?

red-berry means "small spiny evergreen shrub of western United States and Mexico with minute flowers and bright red berries". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in red-berry?

red-berry has 3 syllables and divides as red--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 red-berry?

Close synonyms include redberry, Rhamnus croceus, red baneberry, redberry, snakeberry. 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-berry a common word?

red-berry 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.