winterberry

Questions about winterberry

What does winterberry mean?

winterberry means "deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States".

How many syllables are in winterberry?

winterberry has 4 syllables and divides as win-ter-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 winterberry?

Close synonyms include bearberry, possum haw, Ilex decidua. 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 winterberry a common word?

winterberry 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.