any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries
"The gardener carefully pruned back the old cranberry bushes to encourage new growth for next year's harvest."
very tart red berry used for sauce or juice
"After spilling a glass of cranberry juice on my shirt, I had to scrub out the sticky fruit stain immediately."
A shrub belonging to the section Vaccinium sect. Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium.
"The ornithologist carefully documented the cranberry shrub's distinctive red berries growing in the acidic bog soil."
Of the intense red colour of a cranberry.
"The sunset painted the sky in shades of deep cranberry, turning the horizon into a vivid crimson glow."