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What (who) is Huckleberry - definition


Huckleberry         
·noun The shrub that bears the berries. Called also whortleberry.
II. Huckleberry ·noun The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of the American genus Gaylussacia, shrubs nearly related to the blueberries (Vaccinium), and formerly confused with them. The commonest huckelberry comes from G. resinosa.
huckleberry         
n.
Black whortleberry (Vaccinium resinosum).
huckleberry         
¦ noun (plural huckleberries)
1. a soft edible blue-black fruit resembling a currant.
2. the low-growing North American plant of the heath family which bears the huckleberry. [Genus Gaylussacia.]
Origin
C16: prob. orig. a dialect name for the bilberry, from dialect huckle 'hip, haunch' (because of the plant's jointed stems).

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Huckleberry
Huckleberry is a name used in North America for several plants in the family Ericaceae, in two closely related genera: Vaccinium and Gaylussacia. The huckleberry is the state fruit of Idaho.
Examples of use of Huckleberry
1. It sounds like a summer idyll out of Huckleberry Finn.
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Penguin 23.
3. The "Huckleberry Hound Show" was a 1'58 television hit, winning an Emmy Award for children‘s programming.
4. He loves stories about Huckleberry Finn and all of that," said his aunt, Katie Girod.
5. Fat people see a tree, theyre not thinking Huckleberry Finn, theyre thinking nice bit of shade.