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Webster 1913 Edition

Cranberry

Cran′ber-ry

(krăn′bĕr-ry̆)
,
Noun.
;
pl.
Cranberries
(-rĭz).
[So named from its fruit being ripe in the spring when the
cranes
return.
Dr. Prior.
]
(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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cranberry

CRANBERRY

,
Noun.
[crane and berry.] A species of Vaccinium; a berry that grows on a slender, bending stalk. Its botanical name is oxycoccus, [sour berry,] and it is also called moss-berry, or moor-berry, as it grows only on peat-bogs or swampy land. The berry when ripe is red, and of the size of a small cherry or of the hawthorn berry. These berries form a sauce of exquisite flavor, and are used for tarts. The cranberry of the United States is a distinct species, the V. Macrocarpon. [The common pronunciation, cramberry, is erroneous.]

Definition 2024

Cranberry

Cranberry

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German

Noun

Cranberry f ‎(genitive Cranberry, plural Cranberrys)

  1. cranberry (vaccinium macrocarpon)

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cranberry

cranberry

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English

Vaccinium oxycoccus

Noun

cranberry ‎(plural cranberries)

  1. A shrub belonging to the subgenus oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium, consisting of four species.
  2. The red berry of that shrub.
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      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.

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Etymology

From English cranberry, itself from Middle Low German. The Low German word and its standard German equivalent Kranbeere originally refer to a related plant, the cowberry, but are now sometimes used for “cranberry”. The cranberry is non-native to Europe.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɹɛmˌbɛɹi/ (with much variation)

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