large cranberry

1 2.5

A low North American plant that makes red berries people use for sauce and juice

noun
/lɑrdʒ ˈkrænˌbɛri/

: arándano grande

The bogs were thick with large cranberry plants trailing over the wet ground.

Examples

The recipe calls for large cranberries to make sauce.
The commercial cultivation of large cranberry has become a vital agricultural industry in certain U.S. states.
Many people add dried large cranberry to their baked goods for a tart flavor.
She bought a large cranberry for the pie.
The commercial cultivation of large cranberry has become a vital agricultural industry in certain U.S. states.
The bogs were thick with large cranberry plants trailing over the wet ground.
Many people add dried large cranberry to their baked goods for a tart flavor.

Synonyms

American cranberry

vslarge cranberry

1 3.0

A low plant with small red berries used for sauces and juice

is for larger berries mainly used for sauce and juice

Vaccinium macrocarpon

vslarge cranberry

Specialized

1 9.0

A low North American plant with trailing stems and red berries used for juice and sauce

is the common description emphasising large red edible berries for sauce and juice

Antonyms

small cranberry

5.1

A low trailing plant of cold places that makes small red berries you can eat

Surface Forms

large cranberry singular

large cranberries plural

Morphology

large + cranberry

This is a simple adjective + noun composition: a learner who knows 'large' and 'cranberry' can derive the meaning as a cranberry that is big (or the cranberry plant known for large berries). There is no idiomatic or metaphorical shift and the compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically, so the meaning is immediately transparent.

Etymology

Large cranberry gets its name from the plant's look and size: early settlers thought the small flower of the cranberry looked like a crane's beak, so they called it 'cranberry', and the word large shows this species has bigger red 'berries' used for sauce and juice.