cranberry
See also: Cranberry
English
Etymology
Adapted in the 1640s from Dutch Low Saxon or German Low German Kraanbeere, from Kraan m, which means and is cognate to crane + Beere f, which means and is cognate to berry.
Pronunciation
Noun
cranberry (plural cranberries)
- A shrub belonging to the section Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. of the genus Vaccinium.
- The edible red berry of that shrub.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.
- An intense red colour, like that of a cranberry
- cranberry:
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
- arando Vaccinium erythrocarpum
- bearberry Vaccinium erythrocarpum or Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.
- dingleberry Vaccinium erythrocarpum
- fenberry (dated) Vaccinium oxycoccos
- moorberry
- mossberry(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace
{{vern}}
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- common cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
- highbush cranberry (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., Viburnum edule, Viburnum opulus (European))
- large cranberry (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- northern cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
- small cranberry (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- southern mountain cranberry (Vaccinium erythrocarpum)
Derived terms
Translations
shrub
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berry
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References
- cranberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “cranberry”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “cranberry”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Adjective
cranberry (not comparable)
- Of the intense red colour of a cranberry.
- 2011, Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins, Glorious Appearing: The End of Days
- Leon was in his most resplendent, gaudiest, Day-Glo getup, including a purple felt fez with multiple hangy-downs and a cranberry vestment with gold collar, appliquéd with every religious symbol known to man […]
- 2011, Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins, Glorious Appearing: The End of Days
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