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The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of the American genus Gaylussacia, shrubs nearly related to the blueberries , and formerly confused with them. The commonest huckelberry comes from G. resinosa. The shrub that bears

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The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of the American genus Gaylussacia, shrubs nearly related to the blueberries , and formerly confused with them. The commonest huckelberry comes from G. resinosa. The shrub that bears the berries. Called also whortleberry. Squaw huckleberry. See Deeberry.

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• FRUITAGE
  1. Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery. The trees . . . ambrosial fruitage bear. Milton. 2. Product or result of any action; effect, good or ill.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• BLACKEN
  Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens
• CONFUSIVE
  Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall.
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• EDIBLENESS
  Suitableness for being eaten.
• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• FRUITIVE
  Eujoying; possessing. Boyle.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• CONFUS
  Confused, disturbed. Chaucer.
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• BLACK-JACK
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• BLACK LEAD
  Plumbago; graphite.It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.
• BLACK HOLE
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  1. Full of shrubs. 2. Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub. "Shrubby browse." J. Philips.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• AMERICAN
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  Incredibility.
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