mountain cranberry


mountain cranberry

noun

Definition of MOUNTAIN CRANBERRY

: a low evergreen shrub (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) of the heath family that is native to north temperate uplands and has red edible berries —called also lingonberry

First Known Use of MOUNTAIN CRANBERRY

1848

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