huckleberry

English Thesaurus

1. blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States (noun.food)

hypernym	:	berry,
definition	:	any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves (noun.food)

part meronym	:	black huckleberry, gaylussacia baccata,
definition	:	low shrub of the eastern United States bearing shiny black edible fruit; best known of the huckleberries (noun.plant)

2. any of several shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia bearing small berries resembling blueberries (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	bush, shrub,
definition	:	a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	black huckleberry, gaylussacia baccata,
definition	:	low shrub of the eastern United States bearing shiny black edible fruit; best known of the huckleberries (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	dangle-berry, dangleberry, gaylussacia frondosa,
definition	:	huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	box huckleberry, gaylussacia brachycera,
definition	:	creeping evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having small shiny boxlike leaves and flavorless berries (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	gaylussacia, genus gaylussacia,
definition	:	deciduous or evergreen shrubs of North America: black huckleberries (noun.plant)

3. any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberries (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	blueberry, blueberry bush,
definition	:	any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries (noun.plant)