cranberry

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).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkræn.b(ə).ri/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹæn.bɛr.i/

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cranberry (countable and uncountable, plural cranberries)

1. (countable) A shrub belonging to the section Vaccinium sect. Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium.
2. (countable) The edible red berry of that shrub.
   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     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.

3. An intense red colour, like that of a cranberry

   cranberry:  

• berry

plants

• American cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon)
• Chilean cranberry (Ugni molinae)
• common cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
• cranberry heath (Astroloma humifusum, syn. Styphelia humifusa)
• highbush cranberry (Viburnum trilobum, Viburnum edule, Viburnum opulus (European))
• large cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon)
• mountain cranberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea; Actous alpina, syn. Arctostaphylos alpina)
• native cranberry (Astroloma humifusum, syn. Styphelia humifusa)
• New Zealand cranberry (Ugni molinae)
• northern cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
• small cranberry (Vaccinium microcarpum)
• southern mountain cranberry (Vaccinium erythrocarpum)

other

• → German: Cranberry

cranberry (not comparable)

1. Of the intense red colour of a cranberry.
   • 2011, Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins, Glorious Appearing: The End of Days:

     Leon was in his most resplendent, gaudiest, Day-Glo getup, including a purple felt fez with multiple hangy-downs and a cranberry vestment with gold collar, appliquéd with every religious symbol known to man […]

• arando (Vaccinium erythrocarpum)
• bearberry (Vaccinium erythrocarpum, Vaccinium macrocarpon)
• dingleberry (Vaccinium erythrocarpum)
• fenberry (dated) (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
• moorberry (Vaccinium spp,)

•   cranberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “cranberry”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “cranberry”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.