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black huckleberry
noun
- a low eastern North American shrub, Gaylussacia baccata, of the heath family, having yellowish-green leaves with resinous dots on the underside, clustered orange-red flowers, and shiny, black, edible fruit.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of black huckleberry1
An Americanism dating back to 1840–50
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You go with a mushroom expert, and he shows you how to look for them under black huckleberry bushes and logs beneath big fir trees.
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In their season the native berries were very acceptable; the salmonberry ripening early in June; dewberries and red and black huckleberries were plentiful in July and August.
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I am like a little black huckleberry in a pan of milk when I am in it.
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Scrub oaks curiously take the same form, and clumps of bayberry, black huckleberries and sweet fern are often rounded off to hemispheres.
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