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 southeasternUnited States , from southernVirginia west to southeasternMissouri , and south toFlorida and easternTexas ; taking the form of ashrub (rarely a smalltree ) 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
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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.
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sionnach commented on the word farkleberry
Hmm... doesn't sound all that lingonberryesque to me. "black and inedible" ≠ "red and delicious".
January 22, 2009