huckleberry : Idioms & Phrases

• noun low shrub of the eastern United States bearing shiny black edible fruit; best known of the huckleberries
  Gaylussacia baccata.
  

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• noun creeping evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having small shiny boxlike leaves and flavorless berries
  Gaylussacia brachycera.
  

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• noun stiff bushy evergreen shrub of western North America having sour black berries and glossy green foliage used in floral arrangements
  Vaccinium ovatum.
  

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• noun straggling shrub of northwestern North America having foliage with a bluish tinge and umbels of small bell-shaped flowers
  false azalea; Menziesia ferruginea.
  

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• noun improved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries
  sunberry; Solanum melanocerasum; wonderberry; Solanum nigrum guineese; Solanum burbankii.
  

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• noun deciduous much-branched shrub with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers
  male berry; privet andromeda; maleberry; Lyonia ligustrina.
  

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• noun a mischievous boy in a novel by Mark Twain
  Huck Finn.
  

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• noun a low spreading or prostrate shrub of southwestern United States with small acorns and leaves resembling those of the huckleberry
  Quercus vaccinifolia.
  

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• 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; deerberry.
  

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• . See Deeberry.

Webster 1913