huckleberries

Variant of huckleberry

noun pl. huckleberries

  1. any of a genus (Gaylussacia) of plants of the heath family, having dark-blue berries with ten large seeds
  2. the fruit of any of these shrubs
  3. loosely a blueberry

Origin: prob. altered < hurtleberry

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