Australian cranberry

noun

1

: the edible berry of an Australian shrub (Lissanthe sapida) resembling the European cranberry

2

: any plant that bears the Australian cranberry

3

: a prostrate shrub (Astroloma humifusum) having cranberrylike leaves and nearly globular edible fruit

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