huckleberry

huckleberry Definition

☆ huckle·berry (huk′əl ber′ē)

noun pl. -·ries

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

Etymology: prob. altered < hurtleberry

huckleberry Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

hill: All the Indian huckleberry hills are stripped, all the cranberry meadows are raked into the city.

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