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crackleberry

crackleberry noun: the high-bush huckleberry, Gaylussacia baccata, native to eastern North America, or the fruit of this shrub.

Noun

crackleberry (plural crackleberries)

  1. (US, dialectal) The high-bush huckleberry, Gaylussacia baccata, native to eastern North America, or the fruit of this shrub
    • All the crackleberries had spilled out on the floor.1945, John Moore, Indian Paul
  2. An imaginary shrub, or the fruit of this shrub
    • Four tall pointane trees, each a perfect teardrop, stood surrounded by a low hedge of russet crackleberry.1997, Jack Vance, The Demon Princes: The Face, page 86
    • Either the sorcerer's magic, or the filthy moat, or the crackleberries — or all three — had turned his guts to slush and wrung out his bowels.2005, Charles Coleman Finlay, The Prodigal Troll, page 25

Synonyms of crackleberry

Forms of crackleberry

pluralcrackleberries

Questions about crackleberry

What does crackleberry mean?
Crackleberry means the high-bush huckleberry, Gaylussacia baccata, native to eastern North America, or the fruit of this shrub.
What part of speech is crackleberry?
Crackleberry is a noun.
What is the plural of crackleberry?
The plural of crackleberry is crackleberries.

Words near crackleberry in the dictionary

  1. crackings
  2. crackjaw
  3. crackle
  4. crackle glass
  5. crackleberries
  6. crackleberry
  7. crackled
  8. crackler
  9. cracklers
  10. crackles
  11. crackless

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