cranberry
/'krænbəri/ Cách viết khác : (fen-berry) /'fen,beri/
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Definition
- Noun:
- A very tart red berry used for sauce or juice: A small, sour, bright red berry that grows on a low, creeping shrub. It is commonly cooked into sauces, jellies, and juices, or dried for snacks.
- Any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries: The low-growing, evergreen shrub itself, which produces these berries and thrives in acidic, boggy soils.
Usage Examples
- Noun (Berry):
- We had roast turkey with cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving dinner.
- Cranberry juice is often recommended for its potential health benefits.
- Noun (Shrub):
- The cranberry is native to North America and grows in wetlands called bogs.
- Farmers flooded the cranberry fields to harvest the berries.
Advanced Usage
- "Cranberry bog": A wetland area, often man-made, where cranberries are cultivated.
- We took a tour of a cranberry bog to see how the berries are grown and harvested.
Variants and Related Words
- Cranberry sauce (n): A condiment or relish made from cooked cranberries, sugar, and water.
- She makes her own cranberry sauce with orange zest.
- Dried cranberry (n): Cranberries that have been dehydrated, often sweetened, used in baking or trail mixes.
- The salad was topped with walnuts and dried cranberries.
Synonyms
- Berry: A general term for a small, pulpy, and often edible fruit.
- Fruit: The sweet and fleshy product of a tree or other plant that contains seed.
Related Phrases and Compounds
- Cranberry glass: A type of glass that is red in color due to the addition of gold salts.
- The antique vase was made of beautiful cranberry glass.
- Cranberry morpheme: (Linguistics) A bound morpheme, like the "cran-" in "cranberry," that has no independent meaning or use outside of a specific word.
- The "cran-" in "cranberry" is a classic example of a cranberry morpheme.
Noun
- very tart red berry used for sauce or juice
- any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries