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Definition of Cranberry bush

1. Noun. Deciduous North American shrub or small tree having three-lobed leaves and red berries.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cranberry Bush

Literary usage of Cranberry bush

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1903)
"The high-bush, high cranberry, or cranberry- bush, is a shrub which attains a height of 12 feet and bears scarlet berries which persist during winter. ..."

2. Bulletin by Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station (1907)
"... the 183 Fever bush- 84 Few-flowered cranberry-bush. .189 Flowering dogwood 145 Flowering raspberry 104 Fly honeysuckle 181 Forsythia 173 Fox grape 139 ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"CRANBERRY-BUSH. HIGH CRANBERRY.. Figs. 2664, 2665. Shrub, attaining 12 ft., with rather smooth light gray branches and stems: Ivs. broadly ovate, 3-lobed, ..."

4. Our Trees, how to Know Them by Clarence Moores Weed (1918)
"The cranberry bush or High Bush Cranberry is Viburnum Opulus and is widely distributed: the Snowball, which was formerly so popular, is a variety of this ..."

5. Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (hardy, Cultivated) by Austin Craig Apgar (1910)
"MANCHURIAN CRANBERRY- BUSH — Viburnum Sarge'ntii. * With only small drupe-bearing flowers ; leaves deciduous ; shrubs hardy. (F.) F. Leaves 3-lobed and ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1903)
"The high-bush, high cranberry, or cranberry- bush, is a shrub which attains a height of 12 feet and bears scarlet berries which persist during winter. ..."

7. Bulletin by Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station (1907)
"... the 183 Fever bush- 84 Few-flowered cranberry-bush. .189 Flowering dogwood 145 Flowering raspberry 104 Fly honeysuckle 181 Forsythia 173 Fox grape 139 ..."

8. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"CRANBERRY-BUSH. HIGH CRANBERRY.. Figs. 2664, 2665. Shrub, attaining 12 ft., with rather smooth light gray branches and stems: Ivs. broadly ovate, 3-lobed, ..."

9. Our Trees, how to Know Them by Clarence Moores Weed (1918)
"The cranberry bush or High Bush Cranberry is Viburnum Opulus and is widely distributed: the Snowball, which was formerly so popular, is a variety of this ..."

10. Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (hardy, Cultivated) by Austin Craig Apgar (1910)
"MANCHURIAN CRANBERRY- BUSH — Viburnum Sarge'ntii. * With only small drupe-bearing flowers ; leaves deciduous ; shrubs hardy. (F.) F. Leaves 3-lobed and ..."

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