Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as squawhuckleberry.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.), United States A local name for the partridge berry; also, for the deerberry.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The bearberry.
  • noun The partridgeberry.

Etymologies

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squaw +‎ berry

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Examples

  • Gnarled roots bore little creeping tufts of squawberry with bright, red berries dotting thick between.

    The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

  • Without delay it became a little squawberry vine nestling under the dead leaves.

    A Treasury of Eskimo Tales Clara Kern Bayliss

  • So they sought in a sunny place along the shore, and found the fruit of the squawberry or blitum.

    Woodland Tales Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

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