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cranberry
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun cranberry has 2 senses
- cranberry(n = noun.plant) Array - any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries; Array is a member of genus vaccinium, vaccinium
- cranberry(n = noun.food) Array - very tart red berry used for sauce or juice; Array is a kind of berry, berry
has particulars: american cranberry, large cranberry, vaccinium macrocarpon, european cranberry, small cranberry, vaccinium oxycoccus, cowberry, foxberry, lingberry, lingenberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, vaccinium vitis-idaea
is a kind of bush, shrub
is a part of american cranberry, large cranberry, vaccinium macrocarpon
CIDE DICTIONARY
cranberry, n. [So named from its fruit being ripe in the spring when the cranes return. Dr. Prior. ].
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 (Viburnum Opulus ), and the other is sometimes called low cranberry or marsh cranberry to distinguish it. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
cranberry, n. (pl. -ies)
1 any evergreen shrub of the genus Vaccinium, esp. V. macrocarpon of America and V. oxycoccos of Europe, yielding small red acid berries.
2 a berry from this used for a sauce and in cooking. Also called fen-berry.
1 any evergreen shrub of the genus Vaccinium, esp. V. macrocarpon of America and V. oxycoccos of Europe, yielding small red acid berries.
2 a berry from this used for a sauce and in cooking. Also called fen-berry.
Etymology
17th c.: named by Amer. colonists f. G Kranbeere, LG kranebere crane-berry
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