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The name cranberry derives from the Middle Low German kraanbere (English translation, craneberry), first named as cranberry in English by the missionary John Eliot in 1647. [11] Around 1694, German and Dutch colonists in New England used the word, cranberry, to represent the expanding flower, stem , calyx , and petals resembling the neck, head ...
Vaccinium macrocarpon, also called large cranberry, American cranberry and bearberry, is a North American species of cranberry in the subgenus Oxycoccus. [ 4 ] The name cranberry , comes from shape of the flower stamen , which looks like a crane's beak.
The name Vaccinium was used in classical Latin for a plant, possibly the bilberry or a hyacinth, and may be derived from the Latin bacca, meaning berry, although its ultimate derivation is obscure. [6] [7] It is not the same word as Vaccinum, which means "of or pertaining to cows". [8] The taxonomy of the genus is complex and still under ...
The genus name Vaccinium is a classical Latin name for a plant, possibly the bilberry or hyacinth, and may be derived from the Latin bacca, 'berry'. [17] [18] The specific name is derived from Latin vitis ('vine') and idaea, the feminine form of idaeus (literally 'from Mount Ida', used in reference to raspberries Rubus idaeus). [19] [20]
Vaccinium erythrocarpum was long considered synonymous with Vaccinium japonicum, found in East Asia, however two have since been split into separate species. [6] Both species are now considered members of the cranberry subgenus Oxycoccus, both also placed into the section Oxycoccoides.
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The name of the unlikely heroine in Dickens’s Great Expectations, Estella is a pretty choice with Latin origin, and (yep, you guessed it) the meaning is ‘star.' 28. Aster
Cranberry sauce or cranberry jam [1] is a sauce or relish made out of cranberries, commonly served as a condiment or a side dish with Thanksgiving dinner in North America and Christmas dinner in the United Kingdom and Canada.