cranberry

/ˈkrænˌbɛri/
noun
  1. A small, sour red berry used in cooking and for making juice and sauce.
    • Cranberry juice is often recommended to help prevent urinary tract infections.
    • Every Thanksgiving, we make homemade cranberry sauce.
    • She added dried cranberries to the salad for a tangy flavor.
  2. The evergreen shrub or vine that produces these berries, native to North America.
    • Farmers flood the cranberry fields to harvest the floating berries.
    • A cranberry plant can live for many years and produce fruit each fall.
    • The cranberry grows in bogs and wetlands across the northern United States.
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