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Topic: PLANTS

Date: 1500-1600
Origin: Perhaps from hurtleberry type of berry (15-20 centuries), from Old English horte type of berry

huckleberry

 noun
     
huck‧le‧ber‧ry plural huckleberries [countable]
DFFHBP a small dark-blue North American fruit that grows on a bush
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