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snakeberry

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
snake-ber-ry
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A bitter nightshade (Solanum dulcamara), or its fruit.

noun

A false lily of the valley (Maianthemum dilatatum), or its fruit.

noun

A blue bead-lily, corn-lily, or yellow clintonia (Clintonia borealis)

Etymology

From snake + berry.

Inflected Forms

snakeberries (plural)

Synonyms

red baneberry redberry red-berry actaea rubra

Questions

What does snakeberry mean?
A bitter nightshade (Solanum dulcamara), or its fruit.
Where does snakeberry come from?
From snake + berry.

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