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Definition of Black huckleberry
1. Noun. Low shrub of the eastern United States bearing shiny black edible fruit; best known of the huckleberries.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Black Huckleberry
Literary usage of Black huckleberry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1902)
"When I was a child I used to pick its berries on account of their larger size,
and because of its being different from the common black huckleberry. ..."
2. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.: Horticultural Hall by Massachusetts Horticultural Society, W.D. Ticknor & Co, James Englebert Teschemacher (1890)
"This species furnishes the Huckleberry or black huckleberry of our markets. ...
The vernacular names are given as black huckleberry by Bigelow, 1814, 1824, ..."
3. Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (hardy, Cultivated) by Austin Craig Apgar (1910)
"B. Leaves green both sides ; shrubs under 3 feet. (C.) C. Bracts small, I inch,
among the flowers and fruit; fruit sweet but seedy. black huckleberry (403) ..."
4. Bush-fruits by Fred Wallace Card (1898)
"black huckleberry. This is a much branched, rigid shrub, from 1 to 3 feet high.
Its flowers are dull, reddish yellow, and borne in short, onesided racemes ..."
5. Wild Pastures by Winthrop Packard (1909)
"I know that the low-bush black huckleberry, the kind of the sweet, ... Now if
you crush the leaves of the lowbush black huckleberry you shall get ..."
6. Flora of New Bedford and the Shores of Buzzards Bay, with a Procession of by Eliphalet Williams Hervey (1911)
"A few bushes bearing the ordinary black huckleberry are interspersed with the
white variety. The white variety has also been found in East Fairhaven. ..."
7. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1902)
"When I was a child I used to pick its berries on account of their larger size,
and because of its being different from the common black huckleberry. ..."
8. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.: Horticultural Hall by Massachusetts Horticultural Society, W.D. Ticknor & Co, James Englebert Teschemacher (1890)
"This species furnishes the Huckleberry or black huckleberry of our markets. ...
The vernacular names are given as black huckleberry by Bigelow, 1814, 1824, ..."
9. Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (hardy, Cultivated) by Austin Craig Apgar (1910)
"B. Leaves green both sides ; shrubs under 3 feet. (C.) C. Bracts small, I inch,
among the flowers and fruit; fruit sweet but seedy. black huckleberry (403) ..."
10. Bush-fruits by Fred Wallace Card (1898)
"black huckleberry. This is a much branched, rigid shrub, from 1 to 3 feet high.
Its flowers are dull, reddish yellow, and borne in short, onesided racemes ..."
11. Wild Pastures by Winthrop Packard (1909)
"I know that the low-bush black huckleberry, the kind of the sweet, ... Now if
you crush the leaves of the lowbush black huckleberry you shall get ..."
12. Flora of New Bedford and the Shores of Buzzards Bay, with a Procession of by Eliphalet Williams Hervey (1911)
"A few bushes bearing the ordinary black huckleberry are interspersed with the
white variety. The white variety has also been found in East Fairhaven. ..."
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