Definition

1. 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

1. very tart red berry used for sauce or juice
2. any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries