vaccinium
noun
vaccinium is a noun meaning “Any of the genus Vaccinium of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-C-C-I-N-I-U-M, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vaccinium is vacciniums.
What does vaccinium mean?
noun
- 1
Any of the genus Vaccinium of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vaccinium
- vacciniums plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vaccinium?
Vaccinium appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 98,107th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does vaccinium come from?
Borrowed from translingual Vaccinium, itself borrowed from Latin vaccīnium.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).