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Is rubus a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word rubus is a Scrabble US word. The word rubus is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is rubus a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word rubus is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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Yes. The word rubus is a Words With Friends word. The word rubus is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

RUBUS,

4-letter words (5 found)

BRUS,BURS,RUBS,URBS,URUS,

3-letter words (7 found)

BRU,BUR,BUS,RUB,SUB,SUR,URB,

2-letter words (2 found)

UR,US,

You can make 15 words from rubus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of rubus

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Definitions and meaning of rubus

rubus

Etymology

From the genus name, from Latin rubus.

Noun

rubus (plural rubuses)

  1. (botany) Any of the genus Rubus of flowering plants, including the raspberry and blackberry.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wruðos, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰo- (“sweetbriar”) (compare dialectal Norwegian erre, orr (“bush”), Albanian hurdhe (“ivy”), Old Persian *vr̥dah (“flower, rose”), Old English word (“thornbush”)). See rose.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈru.bus/, [ˈrʊbʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈru.bus/, [ˈruːbus]

Noun

rubus m (genitive rubī); second declension

  1. bramble, blackberry bush
    Apparuitque ei Dominus in flamma ignis de medio rubi et videbat quod rubus arderet et non conbureretur (Exodus 3:2, Vulgate)
  2. a blackberry (fruit), raspberry (fruit)

Declension

Sometimes treated as a feminine noun, but still Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • rubētum

Descendants

  • Aromanian: arug, rug
  • → English: rubus
  • Interlingua: rubo
  • Italian: rovo
  • Romanian: rug
  • Spanish: rubo
  • Translingual: rubus

References

  • “rubus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “rubus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • rubus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • rubus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English

Noun

rubus

  1. Alternative form of robous

Source: wiktionary.org