huckleberry

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The dominie also partook of them, remarking: "This is the whortleberry, or berry of the hart, vulgarly called the huckleberry, although huckle means a hump, which is most inappropriate That reminds me of a man with a hump, though there wasn't much heart to him," said Coristine, his mouth full of fruit.

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  1. noun Any of various New World shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia, related to the blueberries and bearing edible fruit.
  2. noun The glossy, blackish, many-seeded berry of these plants.

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  • Fern, huckleberry, bearberry, service berry, the shoulder-high broad-leafed thimbleberry, and a plethora of plants Anna couldn't put a name to, tangled in the cross-hatching of rotting timber. —  Blood Lure
  • Juniper, huckleberry, and salal bushes crowded the trunks, but even they looked worn and ragged. —  Yasmine Galenorn - [Sisters of the Moon 2] - Changeling
  • I found untold bushes of the blueberry and huckleberry, also enough cranberries in the swamp to supply our own table and sell some. —  Memories and Anecdotes
  • I love that little black blueberry pie; huckleberry, as we call it in the South.
  • D15AV0W3D: I'm your huckleberry, and DG's just my game. —  Hushed Casket Recent Posts
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  1. Probably alteration of hurtleberry, whortleberry; see whortleberry.

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  1. Prob. a corruption of hurtleberry: see hurtleberry, whortleberry.
 

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