huckleberry
noun/ˈhʌklbəri/
/ˈhʌklberi/
(plural huckleberries)
- a small soft round purple North American fruit. The bush it grows on is also called a huckleberry.Topics Foodc2Word Originlate 16th cent.: probably originally a dialect name for the bilberry (though early evidence is lacking), from dialect huckle ‘hip, haunch’ (because of the plant's jointed stems).
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