bush huckleberry


noun
  1. a huckleberry shrub, Gaylussacia dumosa, having sticky, hairy twigs, white or pink flowers, and tasteless but edible black fruit.

Origin of bush huckleberry

1
An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

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How to use bush huckleberry in a sentence

  • What there was of it soon disappeared altogether in an under-thicket of high-bush huckleberry, taller than a man's head.

    The Book of Susan | Lee Wilson Dodd