redberry

Other forms of redberry

plural

redberries·

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 redberry

What does redberry mean?

redberry 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 redberry?

redberry has 3 syllables: red-ber-ry. The stress falls on "red".

What is another word for redberry?

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

redberry 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.