cranberry
- noun
- /ˈkrænˌbɛri/
- We've got our mashed potatoes, our cranberry sauce, our Turkey.
- cranberry juice
You had your gravy, you cranberry sauce, chutney, whatever.
- You had your gravy, you cranberry sauce, chutney, whatever.
- I'm like, what if I just ate quinoa and cranberries and rotisserie chicken?
- This is it's a yellow cap and this is apple juice or mixing cranberries and apple juice.
- I did all the the Christmas man things, cranberry sauce, Turkey wrapping paper, all of it.
- But you know what these cranberry bliss bars.
Examples
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- Could I get more cranberry sauce?
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Um, did you remember to pick up the cranberry sauce?
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Somebody pass me the cranberry sauce.
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Do you want cranberry juice or cranberry cocktail?
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Could I have a vodka and cranberry?
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Turkey, cranberry, stuffing, the works!
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So I put on my oldest jeans and a shirt that had been stained with cranberry juice.
Fiction book (2000) -
An ice-cold glass of cranberry juice makes a tasty, refreshing, and healthful drink on a warm spring day.
Academic text (2000) -
Foods such as spinach and broccoli can affect warfarin, as can cranberry juice.
Academic text (2012) -
She served the turkey with homemade cranberry sauce at the dinner table.
Synonyms
A small juicy fruit used in desserts and jams
A low plant with small red berries used for sauces and juice
A low North American plant with trailing stems and red berries used for juice and sauce
A low North American plant that makes red berries people use for sauce and juice
A low trailing plant of cold places that makes small red berries you can eat
A low plant that grows in cold bogs and has small red edible berries
A low bush that stays green all year and has small white flowers and red berries
A small tart red berry that grows on low shrubs in cold regions
A low evergreen shrub with small white flowers and red berries whose leaves turn red in autumn
A low evergreen shrub from northern places that makes small tart red berries
A North American bush or small tree with leaves in three parts and bright red berries people eat
Compounds
A North American shrub with leaves in three parts that makes bright red berries
- Australian
A low bush with bright red flowers and small edible fruits like cranberries
A North American shrub or small tree with three-lobed leaves and clusters of red berries
A bush with white flowers and bright red berries often grown in gardens
A low North American plant that makes red berries people use for sauce and juice
A low evergreen shrub with small white flowers and red berries whose leaves turn red in autumn
A North American bush or small tree with leaves in three parts and bright red berries people eat
- Australian
A low spreading shrub with bright red flowers and small berries like cranberries
A low bush that stays green all year and has small white flowers and red berries
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Etymology
Cranberry comes from the bird crane and the word berry, and people once called the fruit 'crane-berry' because the little flowers looked like a crane's beak. That's why cranberry now means the small, tart red berry used for sauce and juice.