cranberry
/ˈkranb(ə)ri
/noun (plural cranberries)
1A small red acid berry used in cooking: [as modifier]: cranberry sauce...
- It is likely to apply to cranberries and cranberry sauce as well as juice.
- Flavors include pineapple with strawberries, and citrus with orange, lemon and cranberry.
- I created my own mix by combining a high-fiber cereal, low-sodium soy nuts and dried fruits, such as cranberries or raisins.
2The evergreen dwarf shrub of the heather family which yields the cranberry.
- Genus Vaccinium, family Ericaceae: several species.
- Foulshaw boasts a huge variety of plants and animals, including the cranberry, bog rosemary, heath butterfly and bog bush cricket.
- Mounds, called hummocks, are the growing medium though which swamp laurel, Labrador tea, salal and native cranberries grow.
Origin
Mid 17th century (originally North American): from German Kranbeere or Low German kranebeere 'crane-berry'.