cranberry

Adapted in the 1640s from Dutch Low Saxon or German Low German Kraanbeere, from Kraan m, which means and is cognate to crane + Beere f, which means and is cognate to berry.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹænb(ə)ɹɪ/

cranberry (plural cranberries)

1. A shrub belonging to the section Vaccinium sect. Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium.
2. The edible red berry of that shrub.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.

3. An intense red colour, like that of a cranberry

   cranberry colour:  

• berry

• arando Vaccinium erythrocarpum
• bearberry Vaccinium erythrocarpum or Vaccinium macrocarpon
• dingleberry Vaccinium erythrocarpum
• fenberry (dated) Vaccinium oxycoccos
• moorberry
• mossberry (Canada)
• American cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon)
• common cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
• highbush cranberry (Viburnum trilobum, Viburnum edule, Viburnum opulus (European))
• large cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon)
• northern cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
• small cranberry (Vaccinium microcarpum)
• southern mountain cranberry (Vaccinium erythrocarpum)

• cranberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• cranberry at OneLook Dictionary Search
• cranberry in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

cranberry (not comparable)

1. Of the intense red colour of a cranberry.
   • 2011, Tim LaHaye, ‎Jerry B. Jenkins, Glorious Appearing: The End of Days

     Leon was in his most resplendent, gaudiest, Day-Glo getup, including a purple felt fez with multiple hangy-downs and a cranberry vestment with gold collar, appliquéd with every religious symbol known to man […]