red-berry

1. 1.

   small spiny evergreen shrub of western United States and Mexico with minute flowers and bright red berries

   SynonymsredberryRhamnus croceus

   Broaderbuckthorn
2. 2.

   North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries

   Synonymsred baneberryredberrysnakeberryActaea rubra

   Broaderbaneberry

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: red--ber-ry. The stress falls on "red-".

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.