Definition of huckleberry in English:

noun

• 1A soft edible blue-black fruit resembling a currant.

  Example sentences

  • ‘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

  Example sentences

  • ‘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.’