tanglebush

Questions about tanglebush

What does tanglebush mean?

tanglebush means "spiny branching deciduous shrub of southwestern United States having clusters of insignificant yellow-white flowers appearing before leaves followed by attractive black berrylike fruits".

How many syllables are in tanglebush?

tanglebush has 3 syllables and divides as tan-gle-bush 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 tanglebush?

Close synonyms include desert olive, Forestiera neomexicana. 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 tanglebush a common word?

tanglebush 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tanglebush come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.