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Cranberry
Cranberry -- Wikibooks Cookbook

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Crantastic: The Story of America's Berry -- Gastropod (06 November 2017)
Cranberries -- PBS Food (21 April 2015)
Cranberries, a Thanksgiving Staple, Were a Native American Superfood -- National Geographic News (27 November 2013)

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Cranberry harvest near Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts

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cranberry

NOUN:

the red acid berry produced by some plants (as Vaccinium oxycoccos and V. macrocarpon) of the heath family; also : a plant producing these

any of various plants with a fruit that resembles a cranberry

ADJECTIVE:

a dark red

ETYMOLOGY:

part translation of Low German kraanbere, from kraan crane + bere berry

First Known Use: 1647

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Beahrs, Andrew. Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens, NY: Penguin, 2010.
Cranberry -- Wikibooks Cookbook
The Cranberry Institute
Cranberry Library Page -- University of Wisconsin--Madison
Cook's Thesaurus on Cranberries
Eck, Paul. The American Cranberry. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1990.
How Cranberries Evolved Into a Thanksgiving Favorite -- MSNBC (23 November 2010)
Thomas, Joseph D. (Ed.). Cranberry Harvest: A History of Cranberry Growing in Massachusetts. New Bedford, MA: Spinner, 1990.
Trehane, Jennifer. Blueberries, Cranberries and Other Vacciniums. Portland, OR: Timber, 2004.
UMass Cranberry Station
The Wisconsin State Cranberry Growers Association

Cranberry

Cranberry bush with fruit partially submerged

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Plantae
	Angiosperms
	Eudicots
:	Asterids
Order:	Ericales
Family:	Ericaceae
Genus:	Vaccinium
Subgenus:	Oxycoccos
Species:	Vaccinium erythrocarpum Vaccinium macrocarpon Vaccinium microcarpum Vaccinium oxycoccos

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Creanberry Map: Approximate ranges of the cranberries
Oxycoccos: Red: Common Cranberry. Orange: Small Cranberry. Green: American Cranberry.

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The Cranberry Harvest on the Island of Nantucket, 1880
Jonathan Eastman Johnson

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