cranberry

Definition of cranberry in English English dictionary: The red berry of that shrub; A shrub belonging to the subgenus oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium, consisting of four species; {n} a plant and its berry used as a sauce; A bright red berry of the heath family About 70% of the crop comes from the Cape Cod area Because of their tartness, they are often combined with other fruits and used in chutneys, pies, and other desserts; A red, acid berry, much used for making sauce, etc; very tart red berry used for sauce or juice any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries; an evergreen plant that grows in New England wetlands and produces edible fruit; ) 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; {i} type of plant that produces a red acid berry; edible sour-tasting red berry of the cranberry shrub; any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries; very tart red berry used for sauce or juice; A shrub belonging to the Vaccinium family, Vaccinium oxycoccus, with a number of subspecies; also, the plant producing it several species of Vaccinum or Oxycoccus; Berries eaten to promote urinary-tract health; Cranberries are red berries with a sour taste. They are often used to make a sauce or jelly that you eat with meat. cranberries a small red sour fruit. Fruit of any of several small creeping or trailing plants of the genus Vaccinium (heath family), related to the blueberry. The small-fruited, or northern, cranberry (V. oxycoccus) is found in marshy land in northern North America and Asia and in northern and central Europe. Its crimson berries, about the size of currants and often spotted, have an acid taste. The American cranberry (V. macrocarpon), found wild in most of the northeastern U.S. and grown extensively in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Wisconsin and near the Pacific coast in Washington and Oregon, is more robust than V. oxycoccus, with larger, pink to very dark red or mottled red-and-white berries. Cranberries are used in drinks, sauces, jellies, and baked goods
cranberry juice: the unfermented juice of squeezed cranberries, often mixed with water and a sweetener, used as a beverage
cranberry morpheme: A bound morpheme within a complex word which is a fossil and whose meaning is opaque to the present speakers of the language. May refer narrowly to morphemes which occur in a single word, or more broadly to fossilized morphemes generally
cranberry morphemes: plural form of cranberry morpheme
cranberry jelly: Cranberry sauce or cranberry jelly is a sauce or relish made out of cranberries, commonly associated with Thanksgiving dinner in North America and Christmas dinner in the United Kingdom
cranberry sauce: Cranberry sauce or cranberry jelly is a sauce or relish made out of cranberries, commonly associated with Thanksgiving dinner in North America and Christmas dinner in the United Kingdom
cranberry bush: A North American shrub (Viburnum trilobum) having broad clusters of white flowers and scarlet fruit. Also called cranberry tree, highbush cranberry
cranberry bush: deciduous North American shrub or small tree having three-lobed leaves and red berries
cranberry culture: the cultivation of cranberries
cranberry glass: Glassware having a deep red color and a golden sheen, especially popular in England and the United States in the late 19th century
cranberry juice: the juice of cranberries (always diluted and sweetened)
cranberry sauce: sauce made of cranberries and sugar
Cranberries: {i} famous Irish poprock band
american cranberry: trailing red-fruited plant
cranberries: plural of cranberry
european cranberry: small red-fruited trailing cranberry of Arctic and cool regions of the northern hemisphere
native cranberry: small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes place in genus Styphelia

cranberry

Hyphenation

cran·ber·ry

Turkish pronunciation

kränberi

Synonyms

arando, bearberry, dingleberry, fenberry, mossberry

Pronunciation

/ˈkranˌberē/ /ˈkrænˌbɛriː/

Etymology

[ 'kran-"ber-E, -b(&-)rE ] (noun.) 1647. From Low German Kraanbere (“crane berry”), from Kraan (“crane”) + Bere (“berry”). Kraan is cognate to crane, while Bere is cognate to berry. The bound morpheme cran- (cran- + berry) occurs only in this word, and this is used as an archetype, hence the term cranberry morpheme for such a morpheme.