cranberry: Meaning and Definition of

cran•ber•ry

1. the red, acid fruit or berry of certain plants of the genus Vaccinium, of the heath family, as V. macrocarponor V. oxycoccusused in making sauce, relish, jelly, or juice.
2. the plant itself, growing wild in bogs or cultivated in acid soils, esp. in the northeastern U.S.