black huckleberry

noun

1. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of black huckleberry¹

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

Example Sentences

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.

From New York Times

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.

From Project Gutenberg

I am like a little black huckleberry in a pan of milk when I am in it.

From Project Gutenberg

Scrub oaks curiously take the same form, and clumps of bayberry, black huckleberries and sweet fern are often rounded off to hemispheres.

From Project Gutenberg