wonderberry

Questions about wonderberry

What does wonderberry mean?

wonderberry means "improved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries".

How many syllables are in wonderberry?

wonderberry has 4 syllables and divides as won-der-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 wonderberry?

Close synonyms include garden huckleberry, sunberry, Solanum nigrum guineese, Solanum melanocerasum, Solanum burbankii. 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 wonderberry a common word?

wonderberry 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.