small cranberry

5.1

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

noun

: arándano pequeño

The small cranberry thrives in chilly peat bogs across northern Europe and North America.

Examples

In parts of Alaska, people gather small cranberry to make traditional sauces and desserts.
Compared to its larger relative, the small cranberry has a more tangy flavor and is often used in preserves.
I found a small cranberry in my garden.
The small cranberries are ripe for picking.
In parts of Alaska, people gather small cranberry to make traditional sauces and desserts.
The small cranberry thrives in chilly peat bogs across northern Europe and North America.
Compared to its larger relative, the small cranberry has a more tangy flavor and is often used in preserves.

Synonyms

cranberry

vssmall cranberry

28 1.3

A low evergreen bush that has small red berries used for cooking

is narrower, focusing on a low trailing plant in Arctic and cool regions

Vaccinium oxycoccus

vssmall cranberry

Specialized

9.9

A low plant with small red berries that grows in northern bogs

is the general label for that low trailing plant producing small red edible berries

European cranberry

vssmall cranberry

6.6

A low plant that grows in cold bogs and has small red edible berries

is the same general description but used as the simpler common name

lowbush cranberry

vssmall cranberry

8.9

A small tart red berry that grows on low shrubs in cold regions

focuses on the low trailing plant rather than comparing berry sizes

wild cranberry

vssmall cranberry

4.4

A low bush that stays green all year and has small white flowers and red berries

is centered on Arctic and cool Northern plants rather than regional mat forming shrubs

hog cranberry

vssmall cranberry

9.9

A low evergreen shrub with small white flowers and red berries whose leaves turn red in autumn

highlights the low trailing form and edible berries rather than shrub growth habit

mealberry

vssmall cranberry

9.9

A low evergreen shrub with small white flowers, bright red berries, and leaves that turn red in autumn

emphasizes the plant as a low trailing form in Arctic and cool areas

pudding berry

vssmall cranberry

Specialized

9.9

A low creeping plant with bright red berries that grows in cold northern places

focuses on the low trailing plant producing small red edible berries rather than herb form

Surface Forms

small cranberry singular

small cranberries plural

Morphology

small + cranberry

The meaning is directly compositional: 'small' (limited in size) modifies 'cranberry' (a bog shrub/berry), so the phrase denotes a cranberry (or cranberry plant/berry) that is small. This straightforward adjective + noun combination follows regular English patterns and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.

Etymology

The noun small cranberry comes from a plain description: the low, trailing plant makes very small red cranberry fruits, so people simply combined small and cranberry to name it. That's why the name means 'a small cranberry plant'.