noun
huckleberry
HUK-ul-bair-ee/ˈhʌklberi/
A shrub bearing small dark edible berries.
A wild huckleberry grows beside the trail and bears dark berries.
Etymology
Huckleberry is probably an alteration of hurtilbery, a name for the whortleberry. The older berry name came to designate North American berry-bearing shrubs and their fruit.
In context
this is hands-down one of the best overall huckleberry patches that I've been in
More examples
- We plant two huckleberries along the edge of the garden.
- Small flowers cover the huckleberry before its berries develop.
- She carefully prunes the damaged branches of the huckleberry.
Forms
huckleberry · huckleberries
Similar words
- blueberry
- A related shrub commonly cultivated for its blue fruit.
- bilberry
- A related low shrub whose berries have dark purple flesh.