cranberry
(noun) very tart red berry used for sauce or juice
cranberry
(noun) any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries
Source: WordNet® 3.1
cranberry (plural cranberries)
A shrub belonging to the section Vaccinium sect. Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium.
The edible red berry of that shrub.
An intense red colour, like that of a cranberry
• berry
• arando Vaccinium erythrocarpum
• bearberry Vaccinium erythrocarpum or Vaccinium macrocarpon
• dingleberry Vaccinium erythrocarpum
• fenberry (dated) Vaccinium oxycoccos
• moorberry
• mossberry (Canada)
• American cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon)
• common cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
• highbush cranberry (Viburnum trilobum, Viburnum edule, Viburnum opulus (European))
• large cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon)
• northern cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
• small cranberry (Vaccinium microcarpum)
• southern mountain cranberry (Vaccinium erythrocarpum)
cranberry (not comparable)
Of the intense red colour of a cranberry.
Source: Wiktionary
Cran"ber*ry (krn"br-r), n.; pl. Cranberries (-r Etym: [So named from its fruit being ripe in the spring when the cranes return. Dr. Prior.] (Bot.)
Definition: A red, acid berry, much used for making sauce, etc.; also, the plant producing it (several species of Vaccinum or Oxycoccus.) The high cranberry or cranberry tree is a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), and the other is sometimes called low cranberry or marsh cranberry to distinguish it.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 October 2024
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