whortleberry
Americannoun
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whortleberries
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the edible black berry of a Eurasian shrub, Vaccinium myrtillus, of the heath family.
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the shrub itself.
noun
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Also called : huckleberry. hurt. whort. a small Eurasian ericaceous shrub, Vaccinium myrtillus , greenish-pink flowers and edible sweet blackish berries
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the fruit of this shrub
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a related plant, V. uliginosum, of mountain regions, having pink flowers and black fruits
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Etymology
Origin of whortleberry
First recorded in 1570–80; dialectal variant of hurtleberry
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Mr. Glass continued in an interrogative vein as mordant as the whortleberry juice of his beautiful homeland.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the most part it was covered with a thick growth of gorse and whortleberry, and low tough thorns, though here and there clearings opened, the scars of recent fires.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
These girls without baskets such as the bilberry and whortleberry pickers, and raspberry gatherers had to carry.
From The Children of Alsace Les Oberl?s by Ren? Bazin
He then took one grain of corn, also one of whortleberry, and put them in the pot.
From The Indian Fairy Book From the Original Legends by Cornelius Mathews
We were making among wet whortleberry thicket and torn rock towards the spot where I had seen the birds wheel and circle, screaming.
From Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen
TV dinners, also makes it virtually impossible to import fresh Swedish whortleberries, despite the fact that it does not grow the delicacy itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
"We might almost have known you were coming,” laughs my sister, "there is just your favourite dish, potato-cakes, and even whortleberries to go with them too.”
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
Hard-wooded plants will be generally found to do best; indeed, some of the shrub tribe succeed very well, particularly barberry, pernettyas, the early daphnes, whortleberries, gaultheria shallon and cotoneaster.
From Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them by Violet Purton Biddle
In summer we will gather strawberries in yonder fields, or whortleberries from the adjacent shrubbery.
From Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact by Amelia Stratton Comfield
If General Cass went in advance of me picking whortleberries, I guess I surpassed him in charges upon the wild onions.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life by William H. Herndon
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