thimbleberry

Other forms of thimbleberry

plural

thimbleberries·

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 thimbleberry

What does thimbleberry mean?

thimbleberry means "shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thimbleberry?

thimbleberry has 4 syllables and divides as thim-ble-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 thimbleberry?

Close synonyms include flowering raspberry, purple-flowering raspberry, Rubus odoratus, salmonberry, salmon berry. 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 thimbleberry a common word?

thimbleberry 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.