Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of gamopetalous plants of the order Vacciniaceæ and the tribe Euvaccinieæ, known by its eight bluntawnless anthers, four-celled berries, and deeply or completely four-parted revolute corolla; the cranberry.
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Other typical wetland plants include various sedges, like bottle sedge Carex rostrata, white sedge C. canescens, common bog-sedge C. limosa, tall bog-sedge C. magellanica, marsh cinquefoil Potentilla palustris, common cotton-grass Eriophorum angustifolium, bogbean Menyanthes trifoliata, and cranberry Vaccinium oxycoccus.
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Low altitude wetter areas such as Sphagnum bogs support Sphagnum moss with cranberry Vaccinium oxycoccus, bilberries and cloudberries.
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The European cranberry, V. oxycoccus, has a stronger and more grassy, herbaceous flavor than the American species.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The European cranberry, V. oxycoccus, has a stronger and more grassy, herbaceous flavor than the American species.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Cranberry Vaccinium macrocarpon or V. oxycoccus is effective in preventing urinary tract infections.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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1 The species from the mouth of the Columbia northward is Vaccinium oxycoccus intermedium, Gray.
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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