How did the cranberry get it's name?
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The cranberry is named after the plant's blossom that resembles the neck of a crane.
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Behind the Name gives two possible derivations:\n\n1) It could be a corruption or diminutive of Santiago - which would then make it a variant of Jacob\n\nor\n\n2) It could derive from the Greek name Didacus, meaning "teaching" or "teacher"
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It is called the philtrum.  The name comes from the Greek word "philtron" meaning "love potion".
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It was a grape. The grape fermented when picked, and produced a tiny bit of alcohol, this begant he breaking down of Eve's and eventually Adam's body. The trees of the garden of Eden are mentioned in the Bible, a fig (for the fig leaves), an olive (for the tree of life), leaving the grape the fruit they consumed.
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drink cranberry juice
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Well it does come from the song Yankee Doodle Dandy but the question is where does Yankee come from. You Yanks called us Limeys and that is because our sailors used to eat limes to protect against scurvy on their long sea voyages.\nBTW the Cockney (London Dialect) for a Yank is a  "Septic" from "Septic Tank" which in true Cockney rhyming slang  form the "Tank" rhymes with Yank but the first un-rhyming part is used, Apple and Pears meanind Stairs becomes Apples, Currant Bun meaning Sun becomes Currant,Frog and Toad meaning  Road becomes Frog.\nSo 'the Septic went up the Apples and had a Lemon' translates to 'the Septic Tank went up the Apple and Pears to have a Lemon Squash' i.e. 'the Yank went up the stairs and had a wash!'. Whole conversations can be had using Cockney rhyming slang!!\nGuess it doesn't answer your question but goes to show how bizarre our language is!
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I have to admit, this is a great question. According to the wikipedia.org: "The name woodchuck has nothing etymologically to do with wood. It stems from an Algonquian name for the animal (possibly Narraganset), wuchak. This confusion led to the common tongue twister, 'How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? — A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.'"\n\nBut, I sincerely want you to visit this URL - http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=AhktLkv28TYkQHQAxrWlifgezKIX?p=How+much+wood+could+a+woodchuck+chuck%2C+if+a+woodchuck+could+chuck+wood\n\nI hope it will satisfy your query.
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Phytagoras HIMSELF! the man!\n\nI think he did it while trying to find a scientific explanation on why did theif folks gave him that name.
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Came from the koranic, biblical, belief. It wan't exactly apple as per the holy scriptures... it cam efrom there. People like to beleive that Adam really didn't swallow IT and IT is stuck in his throat.
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The word dogwood is not exactly an appealing name for such a lovely tree. Just how did the plant get is name? There are many stories. In Europe, the bark from a dogwood species was used to make a treatment for mange. Perhaps, the name came from dagwood -- dag being an old name for a meat skewer. From the colonist viewpoint, may have comes the name dog tree - bearer of worthless little fruit refereed to as dog berries.
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I may be wrong but it sounds lik the name of a flower. It's a really nice name by the way...
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The name "Pom" is said to derive from Australia's origins as a convict colony. Each unfortunate transported down under from Britain for his or her (mostly) petty crime was said to be a "Prisoner of Her Majesty" or POHM, later simplified to POM.  \n\nHowever, there is an alternative explanation as  Pom was around a few years before Word War II.  In fact, we first come across it in print during World War I, in 1914, as a derogatory term for an immigrant to Australia from England.  It is a quotation from D.H. Lawrence's Kangaroo in 1923 that gives us the most popularly accepted etymology of this word: "Pommy is supposed to be short for pomegranate. Pomegranate, pronounced invariably 'pommygranate', is a near enough rhyme to immigrant, in a naturally rhyming country. Furthermore, immigrants are known in their first months, before their blood ‘thins down’, by their round and ruddy cheeks. So we are told."  Slang lexicographer Eric Partridge also favors the pomegranate derivation, and he gives a slightly more detailed explanation by quoting from H.J. Rumsey's The Pommies (1920): "Colonial boys and girls, ready to find a nickname, were fond of rhyming Immigrant, Jimmy-grant, Pommegrant, and called it to the new chum children.  The name stuck and became abbreviated to pommy later on."  Partridge also believes that the word was being used as far back as the end of the 19th century.  It is often the case with slang that it is spoken for several years before it is put into writing. Anyhow, the OED is careful to note that there is no good evidence supporting the pomegranate derivation.
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I cannot tell you what the Forbidden fruit exactly was, but nowhere in the Old Testament (which is where the story is from) is there any mention of it being an Apple.\n\nI think the idea of it being an apple came about due to paintings, usually from the renaissance, that depicted the scene and showed it as an apple. Why they chose to paint is as an apple, I don't know, but I am sure there are reasons, perhaps having to do with what fruit was availble in Europe. \n\nBut I could be wrong about the fruit in europe part :)\n\nOne last thing - I don't know what all the Christian denominations hold, but I think many religions view the forbidden fruit as a more spiritual entity then a physical one.
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Most have what they call "cranberry".   That is about as close as you will get to burgundy.
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The fruit came first.\n\nRead up!
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It came from the word "Melita," which the Romans dubbed it. Melita is the Greek word for "honey."
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This name probably comes from the name Griselda, which is derived from the Germanic elements gris "grey" and hild "battle".\n\nSee the link below for more info.\n\nWK