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Huckleberry
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Huckleberry has 3 senses
- huckleberry(n = noun.plant) Array - any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberries; Array is a kind of blueberry, blueberry bush
- huckleberry(n = noun.plant) Array - any of several shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia bearing small berries resembling blueberries; Array is a member of gaylussacia, genus gaylussacia
- huckleberry(n = noun.food) Array - blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States; Array is a kind of berry
has particulars: black huckleberry, gaylussacia baccata, dangle-berry, dangleberry, gaylussacia frondosa, box huckleberry, gaylussacia brachycera
is a kind of bush, shrub
is a part of black huckleberry, gaylussacia baccata
CIDE DICTIONARY
Huckleberry, n. [Cf. Whortleberry.].
The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of the American genus Gaylussacia , shrubs nearly related to the blueberries (Vaccinium ), and formerly confused with them. The commonest huckelberry comes from Gaylussacia resinosa . [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Huckleberry, n. (pl. -ies)
1 any low-growing N. American shrub of the genus Gaylussacia.
2 the blue or black soft fruit of this plant.
1 any low-growing N. American shrub of the genus Gaylussacia.
2 the blue or black soft fruit of this plant.
Etymology
prob. alt. of hurtleberry, WHORTLEBERRY
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