mossberry
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Many kinds of wild fruit gave variety to our diet of fish and birds—red currants and gooseberries, red raspberries and black mossberries, high and low-bush cranberries, and, best of all, the northern blueberries, which grow profusely all over this part of the Yukon."
- "Small black mossberries, indigenous to the Aleutian Islands, are a favorite of the Aleuts, but almost any wild berry will do, as well as garden variety currants, cooked and sweetened cranberries, and, in Alaska, any variety of tundra fruit."
- "She saw a patch of mossberries, the shiny black berries nearly hidden in a tangle of heather, and stopped to pick them."