Library / English Dictionary |
CRANBERRY HEATH
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia
Synonyms:
Astroloma humifusum; cranberry heath; ground-berry; groundberry; native cranberry; Styphelia humifusum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cranberry heath" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("cranberry heath" is a member of...):
Astroloma; genus Astroloma (evergreen shrubs of Australia and Tasmania)