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CRANBERRY HEATH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cranberry heath mean? 

CRANBERRY HEATH (noun)
  The noun CRANBERRY HEATH has 1 sense:

1. small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Stypheliaplay

  Familiarity information: CRANBERRY HEATH used as a noun is very rare.


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CRANBERRY HEATH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Astroloma humifusum; cranberry heath; ground-berry; groundberry; native cranberry; Styphelia humifusum

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)


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