Crossword clues for cranberries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cranberry \Cran"ber*ry\ (kr[a^]n"b[e^]r*r[y^]), n.; pl.
Cranberries (-r[i^]z). [So named from its fruit being ripe
in the spring when the cranes return.
--Dr. Prior.] (Bot.)
A red, acid berry, much used for making sauce, etc.; also,
the plant producing it (several species of Vaccinum or
Oxycoccus.) The high cranberry or cranberry tree is a
species of Viburnum ( Viburnum Opulus), and the other is
sometimes called low cranberry or marsh cranberry to
distinguish it.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of cranberry English)
Wikipedia
Cranberries may refer to:
- Cranberry, a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or their edible fruit
- The Cranberries, an Irish rock band
Usage examples of "cranberries".
In the immediate vicinity were also nuts, high-bush cranberries, bearberries, hard small apples, starchy potatolike roots, and edible ferns.
He understood the solemn feast laid out that night: haunches of pork basted in fat and served with a sauce of cream and crushed juniper berries, roast goose garnished with watercress, fish soup, hazelnut porridge, a stew of morels, and mead flavored with cranberries and bog myrtle.
Mary Percival had one morning gone down to a place called the Cedar Swamp, about half a mile from the house to the westward, near to the shore of the lake, to pick cranberries for preserving.
The basket which she had retained with her was lying with all the cranberries upset out of it on a hill by the side of the swamp.
Now, it was young Mother Weiwara who stepped forward to hand Adica a wooden ladle full to the brim with ale brewed of wheat, cranberries, and honey, flavored with bog myrtle.
Uka tasted it, then added peeled thistle stalks, mushrooms, lily buds and roots, watercress, milkweed buds, small immature yams, cranberries carried from the other cave, arid wilted flowers from the previous day's growth of day lilies for thickening.
The area for some distance in the vicinity of the cave was stripped of blueberries, high-bush cranberries, and from the lower elevations, raspberries and wild mountain blackberries.
In June a cranberry bog is no good for cranberries, but when a blanket is placed upon it it does provide a soft, secluded area in which to express one’s most tender sentiments.
In the pilot’s cabin, Captain Tannenbaum said to his copilot, “Looks like they got a sheet over the cranberries with something written on it.
I called Peg and told her to get the cranberries and that you were here.
Finding a great deal of satisfaction in the filled baskets, she took it upon herself to join Many-Doves and Hannah as they waded in the shallow waters of the marsh, where they harvested rice and cranberries as red as rubies.