different between cranberry vs blackberry

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 […]

English

Etymology

From Middle English blakberie, blakeberie (“brambleberry”), from Old English blacu ber?e, blæcber?e (attested in plural blaca ber?an, equivalent to black +? berry.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?blækb??i/, /?blækb?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?blækbe?i/

Noun

blackberry (plural blackberries)

1. A fruit-bearing shrub of the species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.

   Synonyms: bramble, brambleberry

2. The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.

   Synonyms: bramble, brambleberry

3. (Britain, dialectal) The blackcurrant.

Derived terms

• plenty as blackberries

Translations

Verb

blackberry (third-person singular simple present blackberries, present participle blackberrying, simple past and past participle blackberried)

1. To gather or forage for blackberries.
   • 1977, Howard Frank Mosher, Disappearances, Mariner Books (2006), ?ISBN, page 111:

     My mother and Cordelia were blackberrying along the woods edge of a nearby meadow.

   • 2001, Thomas Keneally, Victim of the Aurora, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2001), ?ISBN, page 72:

     My wife and children were blackberrying at the end of the garden and I was simply reading.

   • 2004, Janet Bord, The Traveller's Guide to Fairy Sites: The Landscape and Folklore of Fairyland In England, Wales And Scotland, Gothic Image (2004), ?ISBN, page 48:

     Another instance of someone who is blackberrying and sees fairies can be found at Kingheriot Farm (South-West Wales: Pembrokeshire): maybe gathering berries puts the percipient into a relaxed or dissociated frame of mind, more conducive to being able to see things that one would perhaps not normally be able to see.

Derived terms

• blackberrying

Translations

Further reading

• blackberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rubus fruticosus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies