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whortleberry

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(hwʉrt′'l ber′ē)

noun pl. whortleberries

1. either of two European blueberries (Vaccinium myrtillus or V. uliginosum) having pink flowers and blue or blackish edible berries with a powdery bloom
2. any of these berries
☆ any of various American plants, as the huckleberry

Origin: < SW Brit dial. form of earlier hurtleberry

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noun

Either of two deciduous shrubs, Vaccinium myrtillus, of Eurasia, or V. corymbosum, of eastern North America, having edible blackish berries.
The fruit of either of these plants.

Origin:

Origin: Dialectal variant of hurtleberry

Origin: , from Middle English hurtilberi

Origin: : perhaps alteration of hurt, an azure-colored ball (from Old French heurte)

Origin: + berye, beri, berry; see berry

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