silver berry

Questions about silver berry

What does silver berry mean?

silver berry means "deciduous shrubby tree of Europe and western Asia having grey leaves and small yellow fruits covered in silvery scales; sometimes spiny". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for silver berry?

Close synonyms include Russian olive, Elaeagnus augustifolia, silverberry, silverbush, silver-bush. 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 silver berry a common word?

silver 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.