cranberry bush

American  

noun

1. highbush cranberry.

2. guelder rose.

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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

Example Sentences

Tizya-Tramm pointed to the cranberry bushes poking up between the rows of arrays.

From Washington Post

Behind the house, they enjoy berries of a dogwood, the leatherleaf viburnum and an American cranberry bush.

From Washington Post

We were near the edge of the cranberry flat; and just as Rod was bemoaning our poor luck, a slight crackling out in the thick cranberry bushes came to our ears.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

Dwarf willows fringed it: at some distance back from the shore, alders and reddening maples dotted the meadows, with oaks here and there, and everywhere wild cranberry bushes in great moss-like hummocks.

From Project Gutenberg