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huckleberry
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Huckleberry \Huc"kle*ber`ry\, n. [Cf. Whortleberry.] (Bot.)
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.
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The shrub that bears the berries. Called also whortleberry.
Squaw huckleberry. See Deeberry.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, American English, probably an alteration of Middle English hurtilbery "whortleberry" (15c.), from Old English horte "whortleberry." Technically the fruit and plant of Gaylussacia, but also widely colloquially applied to the closely related blueberry (Vaccinium). Slang meaning "person of little consequence" is attested from 1835.
Wiktionary
n. A small round fruit of a dark blue or red color of several plants in the related genus ''Vaccinium'' and ''Gaylussacia''.
WordNet
n. any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberries
any of several shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia bearing small berries resembling blueberries
blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States
Wikipedia
Huckleberry is a common name used in North America for several species of plants. Huckleberry may also refer to:
Huckleberry is a name used in North America for several plants in the family Ericaceae, in two closely related genera: Vaccinium and Gaylussacia.
The huckleberry is the state fruit of Idaho.
Usage examples of "huckleberry".
Other names for the fruit are Blueberry, Bulberry, Hurtleberry, and Huckleberry.
A game trail angled into the trees through heavy undergrowth of salal and wild huckleberries.
Thick undergrowth of salal, devil club and huckleberry crowded the natural avenues of access to the interior.
Huckleberry Finn-type kids who cooked lily root and chewed smartweed, and fished with bamboo poles and used old inner tubes for floats, and annoyed small animals and adults with slingshots, and got around on iron bikes that weighed more than they did.
He nosed through overgrown clumps of huckleberry and yaupon until he found the sort of smaller track he was looking for.
It is surrounded by a small mossy rectangle of fireweed, liverworts, huckleberry, ferns, and magic psilocybin mushrooms.
Here and there among the heather grew creeping mealberry vines, with bright red fruit-like beads, and huckleberry bushes that tempted our pleasure-seekers to alight again and again to gather and eat of their fruit.
And then they go, and he lies at her feet on the rocks, or picks huckleberries and drops them in her lap, and they go on talking about themselves, and comparing notes to see how they differ from each other.
Genghis Kan, Al Capone, Marco Polo, Huckleberry Finn, Charlemagne, Paul Revere, Erasmus, Wyatt Earp, Voltaire, Sky Masterson, Einstein, Jack Kennedy, Rembrandt, Babe Ruth, Oliver Cromwell, Amerigo Vespucci, Zorro, Darwin, Sitting Bull, Freud, Napoleon, Spiderman, Macbeth, Melville, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Methuselah, Mozart, Merlin, Marx, Mars, Moses and Jesus Christ.
That summer remains a fuzzy dot of sunburned necks, beer bottles clinking in the Datsun's trunk, huckleberry picking with Wendy and Pam, and beachside bonfires.
Had Mark Twain written nothing but Huckleberry Finn, or Tom Sawyer, or Roughing It, he would have earned an abiding place in human affection and left a permanent record of one passing phase of American life.
They drove far into the mountains near Lake Chateaugay, where the wild huckleberries and blueberries grew.
She could feel her muscles relaxing as she strolled down a winding, narrow path, among beds of peeping lilies, flowering dogwood, and lush huckleberry bushes, as she waited for her eyes to adjust to the moonlight.
The bulbs were routinely dug by the grizzlies in late summer and early fall as they followed the huckleberries into the higher elevations.
He made us all walk through the Campus's forest undergrowth instead of simply taking the pleasant winding path that meanders through the Campus trees - the Microsoft path that speaks of Wookiees and Smurfs amid the salal, ornamental plums, rhododendrons, Japanese maple, arbutus, huckleberry, hemlock, cedars, and firs.