Noun: mountain cranberry
- Low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
"mountain cranberry sauce is a traditional accompaniment to Swedish meatballs";
- cowberry, lingonberry, lingenberry [non-standard], lingberry, foxberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea
- Tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller
"They gathered mountain cranberries to make a wild berry sauce";
- lingonberry, cowberry, lowbush cranberry
Derived forms: mountain cranberries
Encyclopedia: Mountain cranberry