cranberry
part of speech
noun (a cranberry, cranberries); adjective use (cranberry sauce, cranberry red)
meaning for a pupil
1) A small, round, red, very sour berry that grows on low bushes in wet, boggy ground. tree →
2) The deep red colour of these berries. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life cranberries are eaten as cranberry sauce with turkey at Thanksgiving or Christmas, as dried cranberries in snacks, and as cranberry juice. In science lessons they show how some plants grow in bogs and how berries are harvested by flooding the fields so the berries float. Phrases: «cranberry sauce», «cranberry juice», «dried cranberries», «cranberry bog».
examples
- We had turkey with cranberry sauce for dinner. tree →
- Cranberries taste very sour on their own. tree →
- Farmers flood the bog so the cranberries float to the top. tree →
- Mum put dried cranberries in the muffins. tree →
- She drank a glass of cranberry juice. tree →
- The recipe needs 200 grams of cranberries. tree →
- My new jumper is a dark cranberry red. tree →
- So the bear promised to lie very still; but the moment the cranberries touched her eyes she sprang up with a roar. tree →
note
Plural: «cranberries» (change y to ies). Double r. A cranberry is not the same as a cherry or a raspberry. Many people believe cranberry juice cures illness; it can be part of a healthy diet, but it is not a medicine.
Trees and pragmatics
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