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Whortleberry

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Noun

1. bilberry, blaeberry, viccinium myrtillus, whinberry, whortleberry

erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries

2. bilberry, european blueberry, whortleberry

blue-black berries similar to American blueberries

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Whortleberry

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noun plural -ries
1. Also called : huckleberry or ()in dialect hurt, whort
a small Eurasian ericaceous shrub, Vaccinium myrtillus, greenish-pink flowers and edible sweet blackish berries
2. 
the fruit of this shrub
3.  bog whortleberry

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Whortleberry

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nounWord forms: plural ˈwhortleˌberries
1. 
a. 
either of two European blueberries (Vaccinium myrtillus or V. uliginosum) having pink flowers and blue or blackish edible berries with a powdery bloom
b. 
any of these berries
2.  US
any of various American plants, as the huckleberry

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Whortleberry

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n.
1. Any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium of the heath family having edible blue, black, or red berries, especially the bilberry.
2. The fruit of any of these plants.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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