nagoonberry
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Nagoonberry's pink flowers develop into sweet, red fruit in late July and August."
- "The loss of the nagoonberry population is distinctive since it means the loss of the only known occrnrence within the Bighorn Mountains."
- "When the smokejumpers had at last battled it to a standstill, 125,000 square acres of interior Alaskan scrub spruce, white spruce, paper birch, quaking aspen and balsam poplar had been laid waste, not to mention -- and what Kate grudged more -- countless lowbush and highbush cranberry, raspberry, salmonberry, lingonberry and nagoonberry stands."
Etymology
From Tlingit neigóon.
Word Breakdown
- Root: neigóon