native cranberry

Questions about native cranberry

What does native cranberry mean?

native cranberry means "small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia".

What is another word for native cranberry?

Close synonyms include groundberry, ground-berry, cranberry heath, Astroloma humifusum, Styphelia humifusum. 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 native cranberry a common word?

native 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.