cranberry

cranberry — noun

1. About the size of a pea, this sour-tasting red fruit grows on low bushes in cold

1.名詞A2
釋義

About the size of a pea, this sour-tasting red fruit grows on low bushes in cold, wet regions. People cook it with sugar or dry it to make sauce, juice, and baked goods.

例句

Every autumn, the Okonkwo family picks fresh cranberries from the bog near their farm.

collocation: cranberry bog

Eleni added dried cranberries to her oatmeal for a sweet-and-sour breakfast.

dried cranberries in cooking

文法句型

cranberry + noun (attributive)

用法筆記

Fresh cranberries are very sour and are almost always cooked with sugar or dried before eating. Raw cranberries are rarely eaten on their own.

常見錯誤

❌I put some cranberries in my tea.
✅I put some dried cranberries in my tea.
💡Fresh cranberries are too sour to steep in tea; the dried version is used as a flavouring or snack.

2. a low evergreen bush that grows in cold, wet ground and produces the sour red be

2.名詞B1
釋義

a low evergreen bush that grows in cold, wet ground and produces the sour red berries called cranberries

例句

The cranberry vines spread across the flooded bog on the Yamamoto family's farm.

cranberry vine / flooded bog cultivation

Cranberry needs cold winters and plenty of water to produce a good crop.

同義詞
  • cranberry bush

    more specific — refers to the plant rather than the fruit

常見錯誤

❌We need to water the cranberries in the garden.' (when referring to the plants)
✅We need to water the cranberry bushes in the garden.
💡The berry itself is called a cranberry, but the plant is more clearly referred to as a cranberry bush or cranberry plant.