deerberry Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun small branching blueberry common in marshy areas of the eastern United States having greenish or yellowish unpalatable berries reputedly eaten by deer
    Vaccinium stamineum; squaw huckleberry.

WordNet

Deer"ber`ry noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A shrub of the blueberry group (Vaccinium stamineum); also, its bitter, greenish white berry; -- called also squaw huckleberry.

Webster 1913