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cranberry bush

American  

noun

  1. highbush cranberry.

  2. guelder rose.

cranberry bush British  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of cranberry bush

An Americanism dating back to 1770–80

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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 Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. by Thomson, Mrs.

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