noun
creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska
• Syn: ↑bunchberry, ↑dwarf cornel, ↑pudding berry, ↑Cornus canadensis
• Hypernyms: ↑dogwood, ↑dogwood tree, ↑cornel
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷- — see berry\ nounEtymology: so called from the noise produced when it is eaten
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/krak"euhr ber'ee/, n., pl. crackerberries.
bunchberry.
[1865-70, Amer.; so called from the sound made when it is crunched. See CRACKER, BERRY]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.