spindleberry

Other forms of spindleberry

plural

spindleberries·

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 spindleberry

What does spindleberry mean?

spindleberry means "any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries".

How many syllables are in spindleberry?

spindleberry has 4 syllables: spind-le-ber-ry. The stress falls on "le".

What is another word for spindleberry?

Close synonyms include spindle tree, spindleberry tree. 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 spindleberry a common word?

spindleberry 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.