vaccinium oxycoccus

1. 1.

   small red-fruited trailing cranberry of Arctic and cool regions of the northern hemisphere

   SynonymsEuropean cranberrysmall cranberry

   Broadercranberry

Questions about vaccinium oxycoccus

What does vaccinium oxycoccus mean?

vaccinium oxycoccus means "small red-fruited trailing cranberry of Arctic and cool regions of the northern hemisphere".

What is another word for vaccinium oxycoccus?

Close synonyms include European cranberry, small cranberry. 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 vaccinium oxycoccus a common word?

vaccinium oxycoccus 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.