wild cranberry

/waɪld ˌkrænˈbɛri/
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Other forms: wild cranberries

Definitions of wild cranberry
  1. noun
    evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn
    synonyms: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, creashak, hog cranberry, mealberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, sandberry
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    type of:
    bearberry
    chiefly evergreen subshrubs of northern to Arctic areas
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