cranberry
See also: Cranberry
English Edit
Etymology Edit
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 Edit
Noun Edit
cranberry (countable and uncountable, plural cranberries)
- (countable) A shrub belonging to the section Vaccinium sect. Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium.
- (countable) 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 Edit
Hyponyms Edit
- 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)
- Chilean cranberry
- mountain cranberry
- New Zealand cranberry
Derived terms Edit
Descendants Edit
- → German: Cranberry
Translations Edit
shrub
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berry
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Adjective Edit
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 […]
References Edit
- cranberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “cranberry”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “cranberry”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.