huck|le|ber|ry

huck|le|ber|ry
huck|le|ber|ry «HUHK uhl BEHR ee», noun, plural -ries.
1. a small berry like a blueberry but darker in color and with larger seeds.
2. any one of the shrubs that it grows on. The huckleberry belongs to the heath family.
3. = blueberry (def. 1). (Cf.blueberry)
[American English; apparently alteration of hurtleberry < unrecorded hurtle (diminutive of dialectal English hurt, Old English hortan whortleberries) + berry]

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