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  • noun US, dialectal The high-bush huckleberry, Gaylussacia baccata, native to eastern North America, or the fruit of this shrub
  • noun fantasy An imaginary shrub, or the fruit of this shrub

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Examples

  • Just listing some berries will give a rough idea of how many indigenous fruits we’ve never tasted: crackleberry, whimberry, bababerry, bearberry, salmonberry, raccoon berry, rockberry, honeyberry, nannyberry, white snowberry and berryberry.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Just listing some berries will give a rough idea of how many indigenous fruits we’ve never tasted: crackleberry, whimberry, bababerry, bearberry, salmonberry, raccoon berry, rockberry, honeyberry, nannyberry, white snowberry and berryberry.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Just listing some berries will give a rough idea of how many indigenous fruits we’ve never tasted: crackleberry, whimberry, bababerry, bearberry, salmonberry, raccoon berry, rockberry, honeyberry, nannyberry, white snowberry and berryberry.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

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