black huckleberry

noun

1

: a rather low shrub (Gaylussacia baccata) of eastern North America that produces a shining black somewhat acid drupe and that is the best known of the huckleberries

2

: the fruit of the black huckleberry

broadly : any huckleberry black in color compare dangleberry

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