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🟠 An orange berry 🌿 A thorny plant
seaberry

seaberry

8.2
A small orange berry from a thorny plant used in food and medicine
  • noun
translation icon : espino marino
  • The juice from the seaberry is rich in vitamin C.

Examples

  • She added dried seaberries to her morning cereal for extra flavor.

  • Many health products now include seaberry extract for its nutritional benefits.

  • The seaberry is rich in vitamins.

  • I made a smoothie with seaberries this morning.

  • The juice from the seaberry is rich in vitamin C.

  • Many health products now include seaberry extract for its nutritional benefits.

  • She added dried seaberries to her morning cereal for extra flavor.

Synonyms

buckthorn berry
vsseaberry
8.9

A small fruit from a bush used to make yellow dye and herbal medicine

is used mainly for food and traditional medicine rather than dyes
yellow berry
vsseaberry
8.8

A small fruit from buckthorn plants used to make yellow dye

is a small orange fruit used mainly for food and traditional medicine

Surface Forms

seaberry singular
seaberries plural

Morphology

seaberry = sea + berry (transparent) = sea + berry

A straightforward compound meaning a berry associated with the sea (sea buckthorn), so learners who know 'sea' and 'berry' can infer the meaning.

Etymology

Seaberry comes from the two English parts sea and berry, meaning 'sea' and 'berry', so it is easy to remember as the small orange 'berry' that grows by the 'sea' and is often full of vitamin C.