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Definition of American cranberry
1. Noun. Trailing red-fruited plant.
Terms within: Cranberry
Generic synonyms: Cranberry
Lexicographical Neighbors of American Cranberry
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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