salmonberry

Other forms of salmonberry

plural

salmonberries·

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 salmonberry

What does salmonberry mean?

salmonberry means "creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in salmonberry?

salmonberry has 4 syllables and divides as sal-mon-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 salmonberry?

Close synonyms include cloudberry, dwarf mulberry, bakeapple, baked-apple berry, Rubus chamaemorus. 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 salmonberry a common word?

salmonberry 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.