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cranberries

cranberries is the plural of cranberry.

Meaning of cranberry

Noun

cranberry (countable and uncountable, plural cranberries)

  1. (countable) A shrub belonging to the section Vaccinium sect. Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium.
    Synonyms:
    fenberry[w:en:common cranberry|common cranberry]], Vaccinium oxycoccos>
  2. (countable) The edible red berry of that shrub.
    • That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    fenberry[w:en:common cranberry|common cranberry]], Vaccinium oxycoccos>
  3. An intense red colour, like that of a cranberry.

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What is cranberries the plural of?
Cranberries is the plural of cranberry.

Words near cranberries in the dictionary

  1. cranachans
  2. cranage
  3. cranages
  4. cranapple
  5. cranberried
  6. cranberries
  7. cranberrita
  8. cranberritas
  9. cranberry
  10. cranberry bean
  11. cranberry beans

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