huckleberry
noun /ˈhʌklbəri/
/ˈhʌklberi/
(plural huckleberries)
- a small soft round purple North American fruit. The bush it grows on is also called a huckleberry.
Topics Foodc2美洲越橘;美洲越橘树 词源late 16th cent.: probably originally a dialect name for the bilberry (though early evidence is lacking), from dialect huckle ‘hip, haunch’ (because of the plant's jointed stems).