cranberry

Types:

American cranberry, Vaccinium macrocarpon, large cranberry

trailing red-fruited plant

European cranberry, Vaccinium oxycoccus, small cranberry

small red-fruited trailing cranberry of Arctic and cool regions of the northern hemisphere

Vaccinium vitis-idaea, cowberry, foxberry, lingberry, lingenberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry

low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries

Type of:

bush, shrub

a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

Type of:

berry

any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves

berry

a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)