Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A whortleberry or its fruit.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The fruit of the whortleberry, or the shrub itself.

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

  • noun (Bot.) The whortleberry, or bilberry. See whortleberry (a).

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

  • noun botany The whortleberry, or bilberry.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Variant of dialectal hurt.]

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See whortleberry.

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  • One for the berry-pickers.

    August 8, 2014