NOUN | plant | cranberry | any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries |
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food | cranberry | very tart red berry used for sauce or juice |
Sounds | krae'nbeh.riy | |
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Rhymes | accusatory ... zealotry: 432 rhymes with riy... |
Meaning | Any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries. | |
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Member of | Vaccinium, genus Vaccinium | evergreen or deciduous berry-bearing shrubs of northern hemisphere |
Narrower | American cranberry, large cranberry, Vaccinium macrocarpon | Trailing red-fruited plant |
European cranberry, small cranberry, Vaccinium oxycoccus | small red-fruited trailing cranberry of Arctic and cool regions of the northern hemisphere | |
cowberry, mountain cranberry, lingonberry, lingenberry, lingberry, foxberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea | Low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | |
Broader | shrub, bush | A low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems |
Spanish | arandano rojo |
Meaning | Very tart red berry used for sauce or juice. | |
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Part of | American cranberry, large cranberry, Vaccinium macrocarpon | Trailing red-fruited plant |
Broader | berry | Any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits |
berry | A small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry) | |
Substance of | cranberry sauce | sauce made of cranberries and sugar |
Spanish | arándano, arándano rojo, mirtilo | |
Catalan | gerd silvestre, mirtil, nabiu |
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