huckleberry
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- noun
- /ˈhʌkəlˌbɛri/
- Specialized
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arbusto de mora
- What had really happened was that the spotted horse, staring up at the sky and back at some huckleberry bushes and paying no attention to where he was going, never even saw that the path led directly to the edge of a steep precipice, until all at once when he took a step into empty air.
- huckleberry bush
- black huckleberry
- blue huckleberry
Examples
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I purchased some bareroot native plants in February, which I have potted up and will soon be putting in the ground: vine maples, elderberry, huckleberry, currant, and others.
Blog text (12) -
And then he landed flat in a huckleberry bush.
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What difference does it make if it's persimmon, oak tree, or huckleberry bush?
Fiction book (1990) -
Our late ripening variety is the evergreen huckleberry, Vaccinium ovatum, and it's often available right around Thanksgiving.
Blog text (6) -
Some of the shrubs are black chokeberry, blue huckleberry, silky willow, swamp azalea, and sweet gale.
Academic text (2011) -
Of all the huckleberries, it's one of the easiest to pick, with sweet berries that can be pulled off the branches in bunches, so get your fill; though be warned: as with our fall mushrooms, this is not a good evergreen huckleberry year.
Blog text (6) -
The next morning, after eating some of Billy-the-Lantern's pancakes, Andy starts on her way and soon meets a bored-looking horse who's fond of eating huckleberry bushes, a cranky rag doll, a wooden soldier, and a pink china cat with three legs.
Fiction book (1997) -
In the forest, we picked fresh huckleberry from the bushes to make a pie.
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The children excitedly searched for huckleberry bushes while hiking in the mountains.
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She spotted a cluster of ripe huckleberry nestled among the leaves.
Synonyms
Shrubs from North America that make small dark edible berries called huckleberries
A low shrub with shiny black edible berries that grows in eastern North America
A low bush that makes shiny black berries you can eat
A small North American bush that has sweet blue berries
A stiff, bushy plant with shiny green leaves and sour black berries often used in flower arrangements
A low spreading evergreen shrub with small shiny leaves and nearly tasteless berries
A shrub with bluish leaves and small bell-shaped flowers
A bush with many branches that loses its leaves each year and has small white bell-shaped flowers
Idioms
Think you are more important or special than other people
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
How Sweet
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Etymology
The word huckleberry probably grew from old English dialect words such as huckle that meant a 'small' or 'round' thing. It names the North American shrub whose small dark berries look like tiny blueberries, so huckleberry means both the bush and its fruit.