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单词 huckleberry
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Definition of huckleberry in English:

huckleberry

nounPlural huckleberries ˈhʌk(ə)lb(ə)riˈhəkəlˌbɛri
  • 1A soft edible blue-black fruit resembling a currant.

    黑果;越橘

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Much of our food, such as huckleberries or blackberries, came from the woods.
    • If you want to give someone a huckleberry pie, I'll bake you one.
    • In a saucepan, combine the huckleberries, elderfloxver syrup, and lemon juice.
    • These include berries, especially huckleberries, fruits, nuts, bulbs, and tubers.
    • I'm convinced that my huckleberry pie will get people to take me seriously as a bona fide pastry chef.
    • As I lightly sprinkle sugar over the huckleberries, the phone rings.
    • We have feasted not only on blackberries but also on huckleberries, plums, apples, lamb's quarters, and dandelions.
    • He works for two years in his Grandpa's store, picking huckleberries, and selling bait to local fisherman in order to save the fifty dollars needed to buy the hounds.
    • Then came the Indians on their ponies to pick huckleberries and to fish.
    • In a single day, one scientist estimated, a grizzly may consume 400,000 huckleberries.
  • 2The low-growing North American plant of the heather family which bears the huckleberry.

    黑果木

    Genus Gaylussacia, family Ericaceae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • However, the fruit of the huckleberry is different in structure; it is not a true berry, but a drupe, a fruit with a hard stone.
    • The huckleberry is native throughout the Pacific Northwest, providing yet another avenue for spread of the disease.
    • Drought-tolerant shrubs range from manzanita, cotoneaster and rockrose to toyon, huckleberry and other varieties of ceanothus.
    • It was a wilderness of cathedral-like redwoods, of ferns and huckleberries, oaks and stately firs, and a myriad of flowers and wildlife.
    • Recently, volunteer crews dug up a variety of forest plants including huckleberry, sword fern, deer fern and maple vine from the low elevation filtration site.

Origin

Late 16th century: probably originally a dialect name for the bilberry, from dialect huckle 'hip, haunch' (because of the plant's jointed stems).

Definition of huckleberry in US English:

huckleberry

nounˈhəkəlˌberēˈhəkəlˌbɛri
  • 1A small, round, edible blue-black berry related to the blueberry.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He works for two years in his Grandpa's store, picking huckleberries, and selling bait to local fisherman in order to save the fifty dollars needed to buy the hounds.
    • If you want to give someone a huckleberry pie, I'll bake you one.
    • I'm convinced that my huckleberry pie will get people to take me seriously as a bona fide pastry chef.
    • In a single day, one scientist estimated, a grizzly may consume 400,000 huckleberries.
    • In a saucepan, combine the huckleberries, elderfloxver syrup, and lemon juice.
    • Much of our food, such as huckleberries or blackberries, came from the woods.
    • These include berries, especially huckleberries, fruits, nuts, bulbs, and tubers.
    • We have feasted not only on blackberries but also on huckleberries, plums, apples, lamb's quarters, and dandelions.
    • Then came the Indians on their ponies to pick huckleberries and to fish.
    • As I lightly sprinkle sugar over the huckleberries, the phone rings.
  • 2The low-growing North American shrub of the heath family that bears the huckleberry.

    黑果木

    Genus Gaylussacia, family Ericaceae: several species, including the common black huckleberry (G. baccata)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The huckleberry is native throughout the Pacific Northwest, providing yet another avenue for spread of the disease.
    • However, the fruit of the huckleberry is different in structure; it is not a true berry, but a drupe, a fruit with a hard stone.
    • It was a wilderness of cathedral-like redwoods, of ferns and huckleberries, oaks and stately firs, and a myriad of flowers and wildlife.
    • Recently, volunteer crews dug up a variety of forest plants including huckleberry, sword fern, deer fern and maple vine from the low elevation filtration site.
    • Drought-tolerant shrubs range from manzanita, cotoneaster and rockrose to toyon, huckleberry and other varieties of ceanothus.

Origin

Late 16th century: probably originally a dialect name for the bilberry, from dialect huckle ‘hip, haunch’ (because of the plant's jointed stems).

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