huckleberry
/ˈhʌklbərɪ/noun
1
- a soft edible blue-black fruit resembling a currant黑果; 越橘。
2
- the low-growing North American plant of the heather family which bears this fruit黑果木。
2.1
- Genus Gaylussacia, family Ericaceae.酸越橘属, 杜鹃花科。
词源
late 16th cent.: probably originally a dialect name for the bilberry (though early evidence is lacking), from dialect huckle 'hip, haunch' （because of the plant's jointed stems）.