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Definition of European cranberry
1. Noun. Small red-fruited trailing cranberry of Arctic and cool regions of the northern hemisphere.
Lexicographical Neighbors of European Cranberry
Literary usage of European cranberry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1911)
"... paper" in which she made the preliminary announcement that a fungus isolated
from the roots of the European cranberry ..."
2. Our Northern Shrubs and how to Identify Them: A Handbook for the Nature-lover by Harriet Louise Keeler (1903)
"The Small or European cranberry, Oxycoccus oxycoccus, also occurs in the extreme
north, descending as far south as New Jersey and Michigan. ..."
3. Transactions and Collections by American Antiquarian Society (1860)
"Our author seems not to have known the European cranberry ( V. oxycoccus, L., the
marish-wortes, or fenne-berries, of Gerard, p. 1419); which is also found ..."
4. The Fruits and Fruit-trees of America: Or, the Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing, Charles Downing (1900)
"... is much the largest and finest species ; tiie European cranberry ( 0. palus-
trii) being much smaller in its growth, and producing fruit inferior in ..."
5. How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants when Not in Flower by Means of by Maude Gridley Peterson (1914)
"It is larger than the European cranberry, and is the species which has been
cultivated. It is red when ripe, acid, four- or five-celled, and several-seeded. ..."
6. New-England's Rarities Discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and by John Josselyn, Edward Tuckerman (1865)
"Our author seems not to have known the European cranberry (K oxycoccus, L., the
marish-wortes, or fenne-berries, of Gerard, p. 1419) ; which is also found ..."
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