Definition of American cranberry

1. Noun. Trailing red-fruited plant.

Exact synonyms: Large Cranberry, Vaccinium Macrocarpon
Terms within: Cranberry
Generic synonyms: Cranberry

Lexicographical Neighbors of American Cranberry

American buffalo
American bugbane
American capital
American centaury
American chameleon
American cheese
American chestnut
American cocker spaniel
American cocker spaniels
American cockroach
American cockroaches
American columbo
American coot
American copper
American crab apple
American cranberry (current term)
American cranberry bush
American crayfish
American creeper
American cress
American crow
American dewberry
American dog tick
American dog violet
American dogwood
American dun-bar
American dun-bars
American dwarf birch
American eagle
American eagles

Literary usage of American cranberry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Complete Manual for the Cultivation of the Cranberry: With a Description of by B. Eastwood (1859)
"THE American cranberry. ... It is scarcely necessary to say much about a berry, which must be so familiar to almost all, as is the American cranberry. ..."

2. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1844)
"The American cranberry, though growing wild in great abundance, is a plant of easy culture ; and in some parts of the I'nited States, barren wastes, ..."

3. An Encyclopædia of Gardening: Comprising the Theory and Practice of by John Claudius Loudon (1835)
"He finds the American cranberry easier cultivated than the common ; but some prefer the Savour of the latter. (Hort. Trans., vol. vp 279.) 5118. ..."

4. The MAGAZINE of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and (1863)
"As the English cranberry is considered only a variety of the species to which the American cranberry belongs, the remarks of this writer may not be ..."

5. The Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture: A Reference System of Commercial by Granville Lowther, William Worthington (1914)
"Cranberry There are two species of cranberry; one is known as the Little Cranberry, Tocci- n in in. oxycoccus, and the other as the Large American cranberry ..."

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