What is "squaw huckleberry"

Deerberry \Deer"ber`ry\, n. (Bot.) A shrub of the blueberry group ( Vaccinium stamineum); also, its bitter, greenish white berry; -- called also squaw huckleberry.

n. small branching blueberry common in marshy areas of the eastern United States having greenish or yellowish unpalatable berries reputedly eaten by deer [syn: deerberry, Vaccinium stamineum]