wild cranberry

Questions about wild cranberry

What does wild cranberry mean?

wild cranberry means "evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn".

What is another word for wild cranberry?

Close synonyms include common bearberry, red bearberry, mealberry, hog cranberry, sand berry. 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 wild cranberry a common word?

wild 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.