low-bush cranberry

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a shrub, Viburnum edule; also, its fruit. See note at mooseberry.

Quotations

1833

The low-bush cranberries are brought in great quantities by the Indians to the towns and villages.

1958

For the most part, housewives pick high and low bush blueberries . . . and in the fall, low bush cranberries.