Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The high or bush cranberry, Viburnum Opulus, a shrub of North America and Europe, bearing soft, red, globose, acrid drupes or berries.
- noun In North America, Viburnum pauciflorum, a shrub ranging from Pennsylvania to Alaska, and somewhat resembling V. Opulus in its 3-lobed leaves and reddish globose drupes: distinguished as few-flowered cranberry-tree.
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Gathered several August flowers on the banks of the brook; the yellow knot-root, or Collinsonia, with its horned blossom; yellow speckled-jewels, more rare with us than the orange kind; purple asters, and a handsome bunch of red berries of the cranberry-tree.
Rural Hours 1887
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Viburnum opulus (cranberry-tree), on West Branch; one in flower still, July 25, 1857.
The Maine Woods 1858
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Sambucus Canadensis (black elder), rose, Viburnum opulus and nudum (cranberry-tree and withe-rod), Pyrus
The Maine Woods 1858
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