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highbush cranberry 
a shrub, Viburnum opulus; also the reddish, tart berry of this shrub.
See also: cranberry tree mooseberry pembina (berry)
- 1833 (1838) 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. . . .
- 1833 (1838) The high-bush cranberry, by far the most delicate and admired of all our native fruits, was not yet ripe.