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Definition: Cranberry |
CranberryNoun1. Any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries. 2. Very tart red berry used for sauce or juice. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cranberry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
Note: Cranberry \Cran"ber*ry\ (kr[a^]n"b[e^]r*r[y^]), noun; plural Cranberries(-r[i^]z). [So named from its fruit being ripe in the spring when the cranes return. --Dr. Prior.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Food & Agriculture | Fruit of Vaccinium oxycoccus ; Vaccinium macrocarpum. Source: European Union. (references) |
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The cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) is a small red semi-sweet and tart berry, native to the northern part of the North American continent (United States and Canada). The berry is often used in baking (muffins and cakes) and for medicinal purposes.
Native Americans are believed to have first recognized and used the cranberry as a source of food. Some tribes called the red berries Sassamanash. They are reported to have introduced the cranberry to starving European settlers in Massachusetts around 1620, who incorporated the berry into the traditional Thanksgiving feast.
Usually cranberries are served as a compote or jelly, but sometimes they are incorporated in other ways. Cranberry juice, usually sweetened and often mixed with other fruit juices, is a major use of cranberries.
The cranberry bush will only grow in an environment of sandy, salty wetlands. US Revolutionary war veteran Henry Hall is alleged to be the first to cultivate the cranberry, in the Cape Cod town of Dennis around 1816.
There is some use of cranberry juice by people with spinal paralysis; regular consumption of the juice is supposed to reduce the rate of urinary tract infections. While much of the evidence is equivocal, a number of double-blind clinical trials have been carried out that suggest there actually is an effect: a component of the juice appears to competitively inhibit bacterial attachment to the ureter.
Cranberry farms today are diked so they may be flooded. When the berries are ripe, they float, making harvesting a matter of flooding the field, shaking the bushes a bit, and skimming off the berries into waiting trucks.
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Crosswords: Cranberry |
| English words defined with "cranberry": bacca, Bogberry ♦ Cranberries, cranberry tree ♦ European cranberry ♦ Fireworm ♦ Moss berry ♦ simple fruit, small cranberry ♦ Vaccinium oxycoccus. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cranberry": fruit picker ♦ HARVEST WORKER, FRUIT ♦ Section 404. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cranberry" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (cranberry). |
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Screenplays | Strawberry, cranberry. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Edith, the lord and me don't give a damn about cranberry sauce. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) I gotta get the cranberry sauce. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) | |
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 | Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Cranberry - Vaccinium macrocarpon at John's Pond Bog. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Cranberry harvest in New Jersey. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. |
 | A coastal Washington cranberry bog. Photo by Keith Weller. Credit: USDA ARS News. |  | Rutgers University farm supervisor Richard DeStefano operates a ride-on water reel cranberry harvester at the Blueberry and Cranberry Research Center at Chatsworth, New Jersey. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. |
 | Cranberry Lake, N.J. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Old fisherman, Cranberry Lake, N.J. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cranberry picker, Burlington County, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Outdoor eating place for cranberry pickers, Burlington County, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Group of Florida migrants on their way to Cranberry, New Jersey, to pick potatoes. Near Shawboro, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Migratory agricultural worker with seven others in the car on their way to Cranberry, New Jersey, for the potato season. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | All the Indian huckleberry hills are stripped, all the cranberry meadows are raked into the city. |
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Health | Drink plenty of water every day. Some doctors suggest drinking cranberry juice, which in large amounts inhibits the growth of some bacteria by acidifying the urine. (references) | |
The physician may recommend that patients take vitamin C supplements or drink cranberry juice, as these measures acidify urine and may reduce the risk of further infections. (references) | ||
Economic History | Bulgaria | For example, cranberry or another non-local juices would be popular with Bulgarian consumers, if they were price competitive. (references) |
Taiwan | While broad market preference for core juice flavors is not expected to change, Taiwan retailers' penchant for new and niche flavors provides opportunities for more innovative juices and juice blends such as cranberry, blueberry, and others. (references) | |
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| "Cranberry" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.22% of the time. "Cranberry" is used about 59 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.22% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.78% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 59 | N/A |
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1. Cranberry, PA |
Expressions using "cranberry": american cranberry ♦ american cranberry bush ♦ cranberry bush ♦ cranberry culture ♦ cranberry heath ♦ cranberry juice ♦ cranberry sauce ♦ cranberry tree ♦ cranberry worm ♦ european cranberry ♦ european cranberry bush ♦ high cranberry ♦ highbush cranberry ♦ hog cranberry ♦ large cranberry ♦ low cranberry ♦ lowbush cranberry ♦ marsh cranberry ♦ mountain cranberry ♦ native cranberry ♦ small cranberry ♦ wild cranberry. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "cranberry": cranberry-tree. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Albanian | boronicë e kuqe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كرنبري أحمر اللون, ضرب من التوت البري. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | червена боровинка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | ""越" (Cranberries). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | brusinka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | cranberry, tranebaer, store tranebaer, kaempetranebaer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | veenbes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قره قاط(گ.ش.), اس بری صغیر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | amerikankarpalo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | canneberge. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | feanbei. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | preiselbeere (red whortleberry), moosbeere, kranbeere. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | είδοσ μούρου (blueberry, boysenberry, loganberry, youngberry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tőzegáfonya. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Vaccinium macrocarpon, Oxycoccos macrocarpon, ossicocco palustro, mirtillo rosso (foxberry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | クラフト紙 (clan, cleaner, cleaning, cleek, club, club face, club head, club sandwich, clubhouse, crab, craft paper, crank, cream, cream sauce, cream sundae, cream-filled roll, Creap, creek, creeping inflation, diseased persons, dry cleaning, finish shooting, icecream soda, Kleene, laundry service, startfilming). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | クランベリー . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | smeyr churree, lus ny rannagyn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | tranebær. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | anberrycray cranberry, oxicoco, arando (bilberry, whortleberry). (various references) rãchiţele (bog-berry, fen-berry, marshworth), merişor (cowberry, ground box, red bilberry). (various references) клюква (bog-berry, mooseberry, moss-berry). (various references) muileag (a cranberry). (various references) jarebina, brusnica (cowberry). (various references) arándano agrio. (various references) tranbär. (various references) kızılcık benzeri bir meyve. (various references) клюква, журавлина (bog-berry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Oxycoccos macrocarpon, Vaccinium macrocarpon. (various references) |
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"Cranberry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: carberryi, craneberry, Cronberry. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cranberry" (pronounced kra"nbe'rē) |
| 4 | -b e' r ē | Blackberry, blueberry, Dewberry, Dogberry, gooseberry, hackberry, Huckleberry, mulberry, raspberry, strawberry, Tilbury. |
| 3 | -e' r ē | actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, bicentenary, budgetary, capillary, cardiopulmonary, Cassowary, cautionary, cemetery, centenary, cometary, commentary, commissary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, Constabulary, contemporary, corollary, coronary, counterrevolutionary, culinary, customary, deflationary, depositary, dictionary, dietary, dignitary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, diversionary, dromedary, dysentery, emissary, epistolary, estuary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, fiduciary, formulary, fragmentary, functionary, funerary, hereditary, honorary, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, interplanetary, involuntary, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, legendary, library, literary, luminary, mercenary, military, missionary, momentary, monastery, monetary, mortuary, necessary, noninflationary, nonmilitary, obituary, ordinary, paramilitary, pecuniary, pituitary, planetary, preliminary, primary, probationary, proprietary, pulmonary, quaternary, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, Rosemary, salutary, sanctuary, sanitary, savagery, secondary, secretary, sedentary, semilegendary, seminary, solitary, stationary, stationery, statuary, subsidiary, temporary, topiary, tributary, undersecretary, unitary, unnecessary, unsanitary, urinary, veterinary, visionary, vocabulary. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-n-r-r-r-y" | |
-2 letters: errancy, recarry. | |
-3 letters: barren, bracer, brayer, carney, nearby, yarner. | |
-4 letters: acerb, barer, barny, barre, barye, berry, brace, caber, caner, carer, carny, carry, crane, nacre, racer, rance, rarer, rebar, reran, yarer, yearn, yerba. | |
-5 letters: abye, acne, acre, aery, bane, bare, barn, bean, bear, brae, bran, bray, bren, brrr, byre, cane, carb, care, carn, carr, crab. | |
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