cranberry vs whortleberry

cranberry

noun
  • The edible red berry of that shrub. 

  • A shrub belonging to the section Vaccinium sect. Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium. 

  • An intense red colour, like that of a cranberry 

adj
  • Of the intense red colour of a cranberry. 

whortleberry

noun
  • A berry of one of these shrubs. 

  • Vaccinium vitis-idaea (lingonberry or red whortleberry); 

  • Vaccinium myrtillus (bilberry or blue whortleberry); 

  • Vaccinium uliginosum (bog whortleberry or bilberry). 

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