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1A soft edible blue-black fruit resembling a currant.
‘We have feasted not only on blackberries but also on huckleberries, plums, apples, lamb's quarters, and dandelions.’
‘In a single day, one scientist estimated, a grizzly may consume 400,000 huckleberries.’
‘As I lightly sprinkle sugar over the huckleberries, the phone rings.’
‘Then came the Indians on their ponies to pick huckleberries and to fish.’
‘I'm convinced that my huckleberry pie will get people to take me seriously as a bona fide pastry chef.’
‘These include berries, especially huckleberries, fruits, nuts, bulbs, and tubers.’
‘He works for two years in his Grandpa's store, picking huckleberries, and selling bait to local fisherman in order to save the fifty dollars needed to buy the hounds.’
‘Much of our food, such as huckleberries or blackberries, came from the woods.’
‘If you want to give someone a huckleberry pie, I'll bake you one.’
‘In a saucepan, combine the huckleberries, elderfloxver syrup, and lemon juice.’
2The low-growing North American plant of the heather family which bears the huckleberry.
Genus Gaylussacia, family Ericaceae
‘However, the fruit of the huckleberry is different in structure; it is not a true berry, but a drupe, a fruit with a hard stone.’
‘It was a wilderness of cathedral-like redwoods, of ferns and huckleberries, oaks and stately firs, and a myriad of flowers and wildlife.’
‘Recently, volunteer crews dug up a variety of forest plants including huckleberry, sword fern, deer fern and maple vine from the low elevation filtration site.’
‘Drought-tolerant shrubs range from manzanita, cotoneaster and rockrose to toyon, huckleberry and other varieties of ceanothus.’
‘The huckleberry is native throughout the Pacific Northwest, providing yet another avenue for spread of the disease.’
Origin
Late 16th century: probably originally a dialect name for the bilberry, from dialect huckle ‘hip, haunch’ (because of the plant's jointed stems).