Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A mat-forming, evergreen shrub (Vaccinium macrocarpum) of eastern North America, having pink flowers and tart, red, edible berries.
- n. The berries of this plant, used in sauces, jellies, relishes, and beverages.
- n. Any of several similar or related plants, especially Vaccinium oxycoccos.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The fruit of several species of Vaccinium. In Europe it is the fruit of V. Oxycoccus, also called bogwort, mossberry, or moorberry, as it grows only in peat-bogs or swampy land, usually among masses of sphagnum. The berry, when ripe, is globose and dark-red, and a little more than a quarter of an inch in diameter. The berries form a sauce of fine flavor, and are much used for tarts. The same species is called in the United States the small cranberry, in distinction from the much larger fruit of the V. macrocarpon, which is extensively cultivated and gathered in large quantities for the market. The cowberry. V. Vitis-Idæa, is sometimes called the mountain-cranberry.
- n. The plant which bears this fruit.
Wiktionary
- n. A shrub belonging to the subgenus oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium, consisting of four species.
- n. The red berry of that shrub.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A red, acid berry, much used for making sauce, etc.; also, the plant producing it (several species of Vaccinum or Oxycoccus.) The high cranberry or cranberry tree is a species of Viburnum (Viburnum Opulus), and the other is sometimes called low cranberry or marsh cranberry to distinguish it.
WordNet 3.0
- n. very tart red berry used for sauce or juice
- n. any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries
Etymologies
- 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. (Wiktionary)
- Partial translation of Low German Kraanbere : Kraan, crane (from Middle Low German kran; see gerə-2 in Indo-European roots) + bere, berry. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“We found plenty of a berry, which we called the cranberry, because they are nearly of the same colour, size, and shape.”
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14
“Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal Butternut squash tortelli in cranberry-sage brown butter.”
“Wisconsin cranberry farmer and processor Cheryl Urban agreed big buyers can be great news, but she warned of a downside.”
The Huffington Post: US Agriculture: Farmers Woo Big Chains Hoping For Menu Placement
“Made couscous boiled in cranberry juice instead of water, and that was sort of tasty.”
“Compounds in cranberry juice show promise as alternatives to antibiotics”
I dreamed I attended an anti-crossdressing rally in my Maidenform bra.
“With a shell made entirely from recycled plastic, the CollapsiBowl comes in cranberry and midnight blue.”
“The cranberry is another valuable commercial plant that has been greatly affected by an insect known as the cranberry fruit worm, but by spraying, growers have been able to reduce the damage from sixty per cent. down to fourteen per cent.”
“The cranberry is generally grown in moist soil or peat earth; but it may be grown in beds in the common garden like the strawberry.”
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
“Today it’s raining and cold, so I’m stuck sitting at my corner table in the cafeteria with my yogurt and carrot sticks and a box of blood what I call cranberry juice in a box.”
“It was luscious and creamy and the tart of the cranberry was a nice contrast to the sweetness of the semi-freddo.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cranberry’.
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Reds
crimson, blood, scarlet, rott, rojo, brick, fire engine, vermilion, carmine, burgundy, amaranth, alizarin and 115 more...
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Crayon Colors
This is a continuing list of Crayon Colors past and present. As I find new ones added to the "box", I will add them here as well!
black, blue, brown, apricot, bittersweet, blue green, blue violet, brick red, burnt sienna, carnation pink, cornflower, flesh and 134 more...
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AGRI - crops/fruits/vegetables
Crops, fruits and vegetables + plant growing terms
agricultural crop, agricultural product, cranberry, mulberry, oil seed crops, protein crops, rain-fed agriculture, set-aside, soft fruit, drainage, cereals, cold storage house and 96 more...
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Colour Me Happy
violet, lavender, rose, eggshell, mauve, fuschia, grey, azure, almond, sienna, purple, periwinkle and 71 more...
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Berry Me Deep In Love
Different kinds of berries. In particular it's a list of those with -berry in the name, regardless of whether they are true berries or not. According to Schlockipedia, the botanical class of berrie...
cloudberry, juneberry, whortleberry, goldenberry, apple serviceberry, allegheny shadberry, loganberry, lingonberry, huckleberry, juniper berry, blackberry, mulberry and 74 more...
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Fruits
orange, banana, lime, lemon, pineapple, apple, papaya, blueberry, mulberry, cranberry, pear, raspberry and 16 more...
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Saucy
See also Hernesheir's Open List: Sauces.
hollandaise, mayonnaise, béarnaise, bolognaise, bordelaise, rouennaise, satay, chilli, béchamel, dijonnaise, hoisin, soy and 60 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Buttery
Words that make me feel cozy
Noodle, Nugget, Butter, Soft, Snug, Feather, Socks, Knit, Mug, Curl, Billow, Lounge and 315 more...
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color me mauve
color words
albescent, ecru, eggshell, mauve, taupe, ochre, ashen, goldenrod, gamboge, cream, saffron, mustard and 109 more...
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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
blueberry, cider, almond, apricot, asparagus, banana, fudge, foldover, flapjacks, filbert, fig, biscuit and 217 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (C)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
cacophony, cad, cajole, calamity, camomile, camphor, candlemas, candy apple, canopy, canticle, caparison, caravan and 304 more...
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Crayola Crayon Colors Circa 1998
almond, antique brass, apricot, aquamarine, asparagus, atomic tangerine, banana mania, beaver, bittersweet, black, blizzard blue, blue and 108 more...
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Strange Pennsylvania Place Names
Kad, you've created a monster. ;-)
blue ball, intercourse, scalp level, bird-in-hand, jugtown, stalker, quiggleville, climax, mars, paradise, conshohocken, king of prussia and 217 more...
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Hampsteader's list
Just some words i like . . .
bilkirkegaard, frost, flaxen, snow, quoin, quern, westering, deer, antler, solstice, autumn, autumnal and 114 more...
Tweets
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