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highbush cranberry
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a shrub, Viburnum opulus; also the reddish, tart berry of this shrub.
Quotations
1833
The high-bush cranberry, by far the most delicate and admired of all our native fruits, was not yet ripe.
1912
The "high-bush" cranberry . . . is not highly regarded as an article of human diet, but we found its acrid tartness very refreshing, when there were no currants or gooseberries to be had along the trail.
1958
. . . and I'll get a few suckers from the highbush cranberries. . . .