'mountain cranberry' definitions:
Definition of 'mountain cranberry'
From: WordNet
noun
Low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries [syn: cowberry, mountain cranberry, lingonberry, lingenberry, lingberry, foxberry, Vaccinium vitis- idaea]
noun
Tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller [syn: lingonberry, mountain cranberry, cowberry, lowbush cranberry]
Definition of 'mountain cranberry'
From: GCIDE
- Cowberry \Cow"ber`ry\ (-b[e^]r`r[y^]), n.; pl. Cowberries (-r[i^]z). (Bot.) A species of Vaccinium (Vaccinium Vitis-id[ae]a), which bears acid red berries which are sometimes used in cookery; -- locally called mountain cranberry. [1913 Webster]