SQUAW HUCKLEBERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does squaw huckleberry mean? 

• SQUAW HUCKLEBERRY (noun)
  The noun SQUAW HUCKLEBERRY has 1 sense:

1. small branching blueberry common in marshy areas of the eastern United States having greenish or yellowish unpalatable berries reputedly eaten by deer

  Familiarity information: SQUAW HUCKLEBERRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SQUAW HUCKLEBERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small branching blueberry common in marshy areas of the eastern United States having greenish or yellowish unpalatable berries reputedly eaten by deer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

deerberry; squaw huckleberry; Vaccinium stamineum

Hypernyms ("squaw huckleberry" is a kind of...):

blueberry; blueberry bush (any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries)