Definitions of huckleberry
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any of several shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia bearing small berries resembling blueberries
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types:
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Gaylussacia baccata, black huckleberry
low shrub of the eastern United States bearing shiny black edible fruit; best known of the huckleberries
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Gaylussacia frondosa, dangle-berry, dangleberry
huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit
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Gaylussacia brachycera, box huckleberry
creeping evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having small shiny boxlike leaves and flavorless berries
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Gaylussacia baccata, black huckleberry
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any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberries
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blueberry, blueberry bush
any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries
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blueberry, blueberry bush
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blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States
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berry
any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
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berry
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