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# cranberry

noun (a cranberry, cranberries); adjective use (cranberry sauce, cranberry red)

«cranberry» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A small, round, red, very sour berry that grows on low bushes in wet, boggy ground. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cranberry/#m1)
2. The deep red colour of these berries. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cranberry/#m2)

### In the lessons

In everyday life cranberries are eaten as cranberry sauce with turkey at Thanksgiving or Christmas, as dried cranberries in snacks, and as cranberry juice. In science lessons they show how some plants grow in bogs and how berries are harvested by flooding the fields so the berries float. Phrases: «cranberry sauce», «cranberry juice», «dried cranberries», «cranberry bog».

### Examples

- We had turkey with cranberry sauce for dinner. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cranberry/#x1)
- Cranberries taste very sour on their own. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cranberry/#x2)
- Farmers flood the bog so the cranberries float to the top. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cranberry/#x3)
- Mum put dried cranberries in the muffins. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cranberry/#x4)
- She drank a glass of cranberry juice. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cranberry/#x5)
- The recipe needs 200 grams of cranberries. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cranberry/#x6)
- My new jumper is a dark cranberry red. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cranberry/#x7)
- So the bear promised to lie very still; but the moment the cranberries touched her eyes she sprang up with a roar. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cranberry/#x8)

### Note

Plural: «cranberries» (change y to ies). Double r. A cranberry is not the same as a cherry or a raspberry. Many people believe cranberry juice cures illness; it can be part of a healthy diet, but it is not a medicine.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «cranberry» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cranberry/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cranberry» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cranberry.html) on Mova free.