wolfberry
/ˈwʊlf.bɛ.ɹi/noun
wolfberry is a noun meaning “Any of flowering species of the genus Lycium” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-O-L-F-B-E-R-R-Y, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of wolfberry is wolfberries.
What does wolfberry mean?
noun
- 1
Any of flowering species of the genus Lycium.
- 2
Lycium barbarum or Lycium chinense
- 3
The berry of this plant.
- 4
The western snowberry, Symphoricarpos occidentalis, a shrub native to nothern and central North America.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce wolfberry?
- /ˈwʊlf.bɛ.ɹi/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-wolfberry.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of wolfberry
- wolfberries plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is wolfberry?
Wolfberry appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd 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).
Wolfberry in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | lyciet , goji |
| German | Bocksdorn , Gojibeere, Chinesische Wolfsbeere, Wolfsbeere , Chinesischer Bocksdorn |
| Spanish | escambrón, cambronera, cambrón, spino cambrón |
| Portuguese | goji |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does wolfberry come from?
From wolf + berry.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).