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huckleberry definition

☆ huckle·berry (huk′əl ber′ē)

noun pl. huckleberries -·ries

  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

Etymology: prob. altered < hurtleberry

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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