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   Huck·le·ber·ry

   /ˈhəkəlˌberē/

   

   noun

   • 1. a small, round, edible blue-black berry related to the blueberry.
   • 2. the low-growing North American shrub of the heath family that bears the huckleberry.

   Word Origin late 16th century: probably originally a dialect name for the bilberry, from dialect huckle ‘hip, haunch’ (because of the plant's jointed stems).

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