cranberry

Meanings

Noun

• A shrub belonging to the section Vaccinium sect. Oxycoccus (section) of the genus Vaccinium.
• The edible red berry of that shrub.
• An intense red colour, like that of a cranberry

Adjective

• Of the intense red colour of a cranberry.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• arando Vaccinium erythrocarpum
• bearberry Vaccinium erythrocarpum or Vaccinium macrocarpon (species)
• dingleberry Vaccinium erythrocarpum
• fenberry Vaccinium oxycoccos
• moorberry
• mossberry
• American cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon (species))
• common cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
• highbush cranberry (Viburnum trilobum (species), Viburnum edule, Viburnum opulus (European))
• large cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon (species))
• northern cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
• small cranberry (Vaccinium microcarpum (species))
• southern mountain cranberry (Vaccinium erythrocarpum)

Broader meaning words

• berry

Origin

• Adapted in the 1640s from Dutch Low Saxon or German Low German Kraanbeere, from Kraan, which means and is cognate to crane + Beere, which means and is cognate to berry.