cranberry bush

noun

1. highbush cranberry.
2. guelder rose.

cranberry bush

noun

1. a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit

Word History and Origins

Origin of cranberry bush¹

An Americanism dating back to 1770–80

Example Sentences

Tizya-Tramm pointed to the cranberry bushes poking up between the rows of arrays.

From Washington Post

Behind the house, they enjoy berries of a dogwood, the leatherleaf viburnum and an American cranberry bush.

From Washington Post

Then, fastening some stout withes into them, we dragged the pieces, one after the other, out to the path, and left it at the place where the path entered the cranberry bushes.

From Project Gutenberg

For three days he wandered about; and, at length exhausted, threw himself under the shelter of a cranberry bush, previously fixing the handle of his battle-axe in the earth.

From Project Gutenberg

Dwarf willows fringed it: at some distance back from the shore, alders and reddening maples dotted the meadows, with oaks here and there, and everywhere wild cranberry bushes in great moss-like hummocks.

From Project Gutenberg