cranberry

== English == === Etymology === Adapted in the 1640s from Dutch Low Saxon or German Low German Kraanbeere, from Kraan m (which means and is cognate with crane) + Beere f (which means and is cognate with berry). Equivalent to cran- +‎ berry. Via PIE cognate with Polish żurawina, Ukrainian журавли́на (žuravlýna) (akin to жураве́ль (žuravélʹ, “crane”)); Latvian dzērvene < dzērve (“crane”). === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkræn.b(ə).ri/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɹæn.bɛr.i/ === Noun === cranberry (countable and uncountable, plural cranberries) (countable) A shrub belonging to the section Vaccinium sect. Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium. Synonym: fenberry (esp. the common cranberry, Vaccinium oxycoccos) (countable) The edible red berry of that shrub. Synonym: fenberry (esp. the common cranberry, Vaccinium oxycoccos) An intense red colour, like that of a cranberry. ==== Hypernyms ==== berry ==== Derived terms ==== 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) lowbush cranberry 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 ==== Descendants ==== → Dutch: cranberry → German: Cranberry ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === cranberry (not comparable) Of the intense red colour of a cranberry. === Verb === cranberry (third-person singular simple present cranberries, present participle cranberrying, simple past and past participle cranberried) (colloquial, Appalachia) To gather wild cranberries. === See also === arando (Vaccinium erythrocarpum) bearberry (Vaccinium erythrocarpum, Vaccinium macrocarpon) dingleberry (Vaccinium erythrocarpum) fenberry (dated) (Vaccinium oxycoccos) moorberry (Vaccinium spp,) === References === cranberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “cranberry”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “cranberry”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. == Dutch == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English cranberry. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkrɛnˌbɛ.ri/ Hyphenation: cran‧ber‧ry === Noun === cranberry c (plural cranberry's, no diminutive) cranberry Synonym: veenbes === References === van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “cranberry”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute === Further reading === cranberry on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl