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[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- 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
Derived terms edit
- plants
- American cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon)
- Chilean cranberry (Ugni molinae)
- common cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
- highbush cranberry (Viburnum trilobum, Viburnum edule, Viburnum opulus (European))
- large cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon)
- mountain cranberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea; Actous alpina, syn. Arctostaphylos alpina)
- New Zealand cranberry (Ugni molinae)
- northern cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
- small cranberry (Vaccinium microcarpum)
- southern mountain cranberry (Vaccinium erythrocarpum)
- other
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 […]
See also edit
- arando (Vaccinium erythrocarpum)
- bearberry (Vaccinium erythrocarpum, Vaccinium macrocarpon)
- dingleberry (Vaccinium erythrocarpum)
- fenberry (dated) (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
- moorberry (Vaccinium spp,)
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.