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Webster 1913 Edition

Cranberry

Cran′ber-ry

(krăn′bĕr-ry̆)
,
Noun.
;
pl.
Cranberries
(-rĭz).
[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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cranberry

CRANBERRY

,
Noun.
[crane and berry.] A species of Vaccinium; a berry that grows on a slender, bending stalk. Its botanical name is oxycoccus, [sour berry,] and it is also called moss-berry, or moor-berry, as it grows only on peat-bogs or swampy land. The berry when ripe is red, and of the size of a small cherry or of the hawthorn berry. These berries form a sauce of exquisite flavor, and are used for tarts. The cranberry of the United States is a distinct species, the V. Macrocarpon. [The common pronunciation, cramberry, is erroneous.]

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