black huckleberry

noun

a low eastern North American shrub, Gaylussacia baccata, of the heath family, having yellowish-green leaves with resinous dots on the underside, clustered orange-red flowers, and shiny, black, edible fruit.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of black huckleberry¹

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

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Example Sentences

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You go with a mushroom expert, and he shows you how to look for them under black huckleberry bushes and logs beneath big fir trees.

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In their season the native berries were very acceptable; the salmonberry ripening early in June; dewberries and red and black huckleberries were plentiful in July and August.

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I am like a little black huckleberry in a pan of milk when I am in it.

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Scrub oaks curiously take the same form, and clumps of bayberry, black huckleberries and sweet fern are often rounded off to hemispheres.

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