highbush cranberry

noun

1. a shrub, Viburnum trilobum, of northern North America, having broad clusters of white flowers and edible scarlet berries.

Word History and Origins

Origin of highbush cranberry¹

An Americanism dating back to 1795–1805

Example Sentences

This mass slopes down to thickets of alder, red dogwood, haw, highbush cranberry, and honeysuckle, with wide beds of goldenrod or purple asters shading off into the spangled meadows wherever the copses open up into grassy glades.

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