cranberry bush

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   deciduous North American shrub or small tree having three-lobed leaves and red berries

   Synonymscranberry treeAmerican cranberry bushhighbush cranberryViburnum trilobum

   Broadershrub

   Part ofViburnum

Questions about cranberry bush

What does cranberry bush mean?

cranberry bush means "deciduous North American shrub or small tree having three-lobed leaves and red berries".

What is another word for cranberry bush?

Close synonyms include cranberry tree, American cranberry bush, highbush cranberry, Viburnum trilobum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cranberry bush a common word?

cranberry bush is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.