[
US
/ˈhəkəɫˌbɛɹi/
]
[ UK /hˈʌklɪbəɹi/ ]
[ UK /hˈʌklɪbəɹi/ ]
NOUN
- blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States
- any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberries
- any of several shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia bearing small berries resembling blueberries
How To Use huckleberry In A Sentence
- Page 160 started off as sound in limb and wind, as if he had just jumped from a "huckleberry" bush. The Hive of "The Bee-Hunter," A Repository of Sketches, Including Peculiar American Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports
- Amid that sea of sand, islands of forest appear, dense with Sitka spruce and salal and evergreen huckleberry.
- They also have a feature: thickets of huckleberry bushes that grow out of the tops of Redwood trees that are technically known as huckleberry afros, and you can sit there and snack on the berries while you're resting. Richard Preston on the giant trees
- Drought-tolerant shrubs range from manzanita, cotoneaster and rockrose to toyon, huckleberry and other varieties of ceanothus.
- Groundcover was comprised of dense blueberry and huckleberry or mountain laurel.
- Here I found many of my old favorites the heathworts -- kalmia, pyrola, chiogenes, huckleberry, cranberry, etc. Travels in Alaska
- These ancient redwood forests and their tree-tops support myriad lichens, bryophytes and mosses as well as other vascular plants like salmonberry, huckleberry and Rhamnus trees growing some 240 feet above the earth. Dr. Reese Halter: Saving the Remaining Old Growth Redwood Forests
- I love the dressing: I used huckleberry honey from a local apiary, which is dark and flavorful. BigOven.com - Recipe Raves
- This book, his greatest (though he claimed to prefer two of his more refined and ponderous works), is lovable enough, unsettling enough and dissatisfying enough -- altogether granular enough -- that I hereby make the following prediction: "Huckleberry Finn" will never overripen, nor grow stale, nor ossify. Books on Southern Humor
- December 2nd, 2009 11: 22 am ET huckleberry is a moron, a charlatan, a phony, and a fool. HuckPAC coordinator steps down, citing clemency decision