sugarberry

Other forms of sugarberry

plural

sugarberries·

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 sugarberry

What does sugarberry mean?

sugarberry means "deciduous shade tree with small black berries; southern United States; yields soft yellowish wood". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sugarberry?

sugarberry has 4 syllables: su-gar-ber-ry. The stress falls on "gar".

What is another word for sugarberry?

Close synonyms include Celtis laevigata, hackberry. 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 sugarberry a common word?

sugarberry 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.