huckleberry

[US]/'hʌk(ə)lb(ə)rɪ/
[UK]/'hʌkl'bɛri/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. small blue or black fruit of the huckleberry plant, often used in food preparation.

Phrases & Collocations

Huckleberry Finn

huckleberry jam

Example Sentences

I'll be your huckleberry.

Huckleberry Finn is a classic novel.

He's my huckleberry, always there to help.

The huckleberry pie was delicious.

She's a real huckleberry when it comes to solving puzzles.

I picked a basket of huckleberries in the forest.

Huckleberries are often used in jams and pies.

We went on a hike and found wild huckleberries along the trail.

The color of the huckleberry bush turned a vibrant red in the fall.

Huckleberries are a popular ingredient in smoothies and desserts.

Real-world Examples

Blueberries, huckleberries, cone flowers, and wild hibiscus were used for purple pigments.

Source: One Hundred Thousand Whys

Disguised in a splendor of silver wings, they flit then dive among the huckleberries and make love in the grass.

Source: The yearned rural life

We're trying to learn together about the rainy season, about when the salmon come, the huckleberries, the fires.

Source: The New Yorker (video edition)

As he worked, he noticed a row of glass jars of huckleberries that I had canned.

Source: Cross Stream (Part 1)

And in autumn, when the huckleberries are ripe, bands of robins and grosbeaks come to feast, forming altogether delightful little byworlds for the naturalist.

Source: The Mountains of California (Part 1)

On a noonday in mid-November, they all sat grouped about the dinner table, eating the last of the dessert concocted by Mammy from corn meal and dried huckleberries, sweetened with sorghum.

Source: Gone with the Wind

Well, maybe Steve CUNY grew this great big gourd, all 1200 pounds of it, then carved out its innards, named it the huckleberry for huckleberry thin and set off on the Missouri River near Kansas City.

Source: The World From A to Z

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