cranberry tree

Questions about cranberry tree

What does cranberry tree mean?

cranberry tree means "deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for cranberry tree?

Close synonyms include guelder rose, European cranberrybush, European cranberry bush, crampbark, Viburnum opulus. 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 tree a common word?

cranberry tree 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.