Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
blue-tangle .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (
Gaylussacia frondosa ) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
ericaceous flowering plant in thegenus Gaylussacia. - noun Its dark blue
edible berry with whitebloom .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit
- noun huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit
Etymologies
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Examples
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The dangleberry is a juicy, sweet, blue-black berry.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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The dangleberry is a juicy, sweet, blue-black berry.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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The dangleberry is a juicy, sweet, blue-black berry.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Lowland forest understory growth tends to be more varied than upland growth, with sheep laurel, stagger-bush, dangleberry, black huckleberry, and sweet pepperbush as prominent shrubs.
Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Jersey 2007
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I wonder whether Gorbals Mick would rule it out of order if he were to describe a Tory MP as a "treacherous dangleberry?"
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And now you're joking about it you ... you ... hapless dangleberry?
TV Scoop 2009
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And now you're joking about it you ... you ... hapless dangleberry?
TV Scoop 2009
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(£2,268), new grommets (£112), set of hexagonal tag nuts and dangleberry adapter (£35) and new piss-take valves (£120).
Army Rumour Service 2010
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(£2,268), new grommets (£112), set of hexagonal tag nuts and dangleberry adapter (£35) and new piss-take valves (£120).
Army Rumour Service 2010
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(£2,268), new grommets (£112), set of hexagonal tag nuts and dangleberry adapter (£35) and new piss-take valves (£120).
Army Rumour Service 2010
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