mountain cranberry

Questions about mountain cranberry

What does mountain cranberry mean?

mountain cranberry means "low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for mountain cranberry?

Close synonyms include cowberry, lingonberry, lingenberry, lingberry, foxberry. 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 mountain cranberry a common word?

mountain cranberry 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.