native cranberry

native cranberry
noun
small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia
Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush
Member Holonyms: ↑Astroloma, ↑genus Astroloma

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noun
: either of two Australian shrubs of the genus Styphelia (S. sapida, S. humifusa) having thin-fleshed fruits resembling cranberries

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