| 词汇 | cranberry |
| 词源 | cranberry. This berry grows wild in the marshlands favored by cranes, which leads some experts to trace it to the Low Ger- man word kraanbere. However, since the word is recorded in America as early as 1647—a time when it is unlikely that Low German terms would have much currency here—it could be that Americans coined the word independently, noting them- selves that the berry grew where cranes lived. |
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