different between blueberry vs cranberry

English

Etymology

blue +? berry

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?blu?b(?)?i/
• (US) enPR: blu'b?"r?, IPA^(key): /?blu.?b?.?i/

Noun

blueberry (countable and uncountable, plural blueberries)

1. (countable) An edible round berry, belonging to the cowberry group (Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus), with flared crowns at the end, that turns blue on ripening.
2. (countable) The shrub of the above-mentioned berry.
3. (countable and uncountable) A dark blue colour.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

blueberry (comparative more blueberry, superlative most blueberry)

1. Of a dark blue colour.

Translations

Verb

blueberry (third-person singular simple present blueberries, present participle blueberrying, simple past and past participle blueberried)

1. To gather or forage for blueberries.
   • 1939, Kathrene Pinkerton, Wilderness Life, Carrick and Evans (1939), page 179:

     We blueberried on an open flat beside the river. The ground was covered with great frosted blue globules, sweet and warm in the sunshine.

   • 1947, Robert Wallcott & Albert Hale, "What People Talk About", Daily Boston Globe, 26 August 1947:

     The "white longlegged, long-necked bird" seen by your Ayer reader while she was blueberrying on the shore of a pond was either the Little Blue Heron in white phase or immature, […]

   • 1951, Elizabeth Coatsworth, The Enchanted: An Incredible Tale, Pantheon (1951), page 62:

     They had not passed again in the surrey going to the Forks, nine miles away, and none of the girls had been blueberrying among the bushes at the edge of the woods.

   • 1988, Ms. Magazine, Volume 17, Issues 1-6, page 38:

     Sarah and I have been blueberrying together off and on since the summer of '64. This morning, armed with our pots and pans, we went out and picked two quarts of wild berries and then came home and made a cake.

   • 2000, Robert Dash, Notes from Madoo: Making a Garden in the Hamptons, Houghton Mifflin Company (2000), ?ISBN, page 152:

     Pointy fraise de bois went through it all with undiminished generosity (so small a plant for all that giving!) and the picking was fine, for the birds were off blueberrying and taking the late raspberries just as they ripened.

   • 2000, Edward Hoagland, "A Peaceable Kingdom", in Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life, The Lyons Press (2000), ?ISBN, page 61:

     On some of the richest days, when a moose stalks by or a bear is blueberrying or munching hazelnuts outside, I think of my house as a bathysphere suspended in the wilderness.

   • 2002, Loretta Ellsworth, The Shrouding Woman, Henry Holt and Company (2002), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     "Come, Aunt Flo. I'll show you where we go blueberrying. Last year we got almost a bushel of berries, and Papa says they should be ripe now."

   • 2002, Lois Kenyon Pesanelli, His Hand Upon Me for Miracles, 1st Books Library (2002), ?ISBN, page 14:

     We decided to go blueberrying one day up in our hills. We grabbed our blueberry cans, hitched them to our belts, and headed for the blueberries.

See also

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, dark blue, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric-blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, light blue, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues)}
• bilberry
• ericaceous
• whortleberry

Further reading

• blueberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Blueberries on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• berry blue

English

Etymology

Adapted in the 1640s from Dutch Low Saxon or German Low German Kraanbeere, from Kraan m, which means and is cognate to crane + Beere f, which means and is cognate to berry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?ænb(?)??/

Noun

cranberry (plural cranberries)

1. A shrub belonging to the section Vaccinium sect. Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium.
2. The edible red berry of that shrub.
3. An intense red colour, like that of a cranberry

Hypernyms

• berry

Hyponyms

• arando Vaccinium erythrocarpum
• bearberry Vaccinium erythrocarpum or Vaccinium macrocarpon
• dingleberry Vaccinium erythrocarpum
• fenberry (dated) Vaccinium oxycoccos
• moorberry
• mossberry (Canada)
• American cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon)
• common cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
• highbush cranberry (Viburnum trilobum, Viburnum edule, Viburnum opulus (European))
• large cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon)
• northern cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
• small cranberry (Vaccinium microcarpum)
• southern mountain cranberry (Vaccinium erythrocarpum)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? German: Cranberry

Translations

References

• cranberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• cranberry at OneLook Dictionary Search
• cranberry in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Adjective

cranberry (not comparable)

1. Of the intense red colour of a cranberry.
   • 2011, Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins, Glorious Appearing: The End of Days

     Leon was in his most resplendent, gaudiest, Day-Glo getup, including a purple felt fez with multiple hangy-downs and a cranberry vestment with gold collar, appliquéd with every religious symbol known to man […]