Definitions

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

  • noun A shrub or small tree (Vaccinium arboreum) in the heath family, native to the southeast United States, having white flowers and dry black berries.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The Vaccinium arboreum, a shrub or small tree of the southern United States, bearing a small, black, many-seeded berry, with a dry and rather astringent pulp. The wood is hard and very close-grained, and is used to some extent in turning.

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

  • noun uncountable A species of Vaccinium (Vaccinium arboreum) native to the southeastern United States, from southern Virginia west to southeastern Missouri, and south to Florida and eastern Texas; taking the form of a shrub (rarely a small tree) growing to 3-5 m (rarely 9 m) tall.
  • noun countable A berry from a shrub of this species.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries

Etymologies

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

[farkle (of unknown origin) + berry.]

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Examples

  • Then there is the farkleberry (Vaccinium arboreum); I wish I had one.

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  • Then there is the farkleberry (Vaccinium arboreum); I wish I had one.

    unknown title 2009

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  • Hmm... doesn't sound all that lingonberryesque to me. "black and inedible" ≠ "red and delicious".

    January 22, 2009