huckleberry

(hukəl ber′ē)

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

See huckleberry in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. Any of various New World shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia, related to the blueberries and bearing edible fruit.
  2. The glossy, blackish, many-seeded berry of these plants.

Origin:

Origin: Probably alteration of hurtleberry, whortleberry; see whortleberry

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