huckleberry
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- noun
- /ˈhʌkəlˌbɛri/
- US
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- In the summer, we love picking fresh huckleberry berries in the forest.
- huckleberry pie
- wild huckleberry
- sweet huckleberry
Examples
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We're lucky to have a dozen varieties of huckleberry in Washington and Oregon.
Blog text (6) -
His female cousins had sent StaPax of homemade blackberry and huckleberry jam, a packet of birch gum, and wintergreen leaves and sweetgrass for tea.
Fiction book (1998) -
"I think it's a wild huckleberry," he said.
Fiction book (1998) -
I hear the huckleberry pie is out of this world.
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The missis made huckleberry pie today.
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Day 4: Hiking through ancient cedar groves with some huckleberry picking on the side.
Blog text (6) -
She baked a delicious huckleberry pie for the family reunion.
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They made homemade jam from the wild huckleberry berries they gathered last weekend.
Synonyms
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A small sweet dark blue berry that you can eat
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A small juicy fruit used in desserts and jams
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A small dark blue berry like a blueberry that grows on a low bush and can be eaten
A low shrub with shiny black edible berries that grows in eastern North America
A small sweet blue berry like a blueberry that grows in woods and bogs
A small North American bush that has sweet blue berries
A bush with pink flowers and sweet blue berries that grows in the eastern United States
A stiff, bushy plant with shiny green leaves and sour black berries often used in flower arrangements
A low bush that makes shiny black berries you can eat
A blue-black berry you can eat, like a small sour blueberry
A small dark blue berry that grows wild in European forests
A tall bush that produces blueberries you can eat
A small low shrub with sweet dark blue berries
A low-growing shrub that has sweet dark blue berries in small groups
A low bush in the eastern United States that has dark blue sweet berries
A low bush that has dark blue sweet berries
A bush that produces small sweet blueberries grown in the southeastern United States
A tall bush that grows in wet ground and makes dark blue berries you can eat in eastern North America
A small bush that grows in mountains and has sour berries you can eat
A bush in the honeysuckle family grown for sweet blue berries
A low bush with small dark blue edible berries
A bush with shiny leaves that stay green all year and dark blue berries
Idioms
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Compounds
A low spreading evergreen shrub with small shiny leaves and nearly tasteless berries
A stiff, bushy plant with shiny green leaves and sour black berries often used in flower arrangements
- Specialized
A bush with many branches that loses its leaves each year and has small white bell-shaped flowers
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word huckleberry probably grew from old English dialect words such as huckle that meant a 'small' or 'round' thing. Think of it as a tiny cousin of the familiar blueberry, which helps explain why huckleberry means the small dark berry you can eat.