Huckleberry vs Blackberry - What's the difference?

As a noun huckleberry

is a small round fruit of a dark blue or red color of several plants in the related genera vaccinium'' and ''gaylussacia .

As a proper noun blackberry is

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As a verb blackberry is

to send a text message or e-mail with a blackberry device.

huckleberry

English

(wikipedia huckleberry)

Noun

(huckleberries)

A small round fruit of a dark blue or red color of several plants in the related genera Vaccinium'' and ''Gaylussacia .

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A shrub growing this fruit.

(idiomatic) A small amount, as in the phrase huckleberry above a persimmon.

Usage notes

While some Vaccinium'' species, such as , the red huckleberry, are always called huckleberries''', other species may be called blueberries or ' huckleberries depending upon local custom. Usually, the distinction between them is that blueberries are white on the inside in most cases compared to huckleberries which very from red to purple inside with a couple dozen tiny seeds.

Derived terms

* red huckleberry

blackberry

English

(wikipedia blackberry) (Rubus fruticosus)

Noun

(blackberries)

A fruit-bearing shrub of the species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.

The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.

(UK, in some regions) The blackcurrant.

Synonyms

* (shrub and fruit) bramble

Derived terms

* blackberrying

Verb

To gather or forage for .

* 1925 , Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway :

She had gone up into the tower alone and left them blackberrying in the sun

* 1977 , Howard Frank Mosher, Disappearances , Mariner Books (2006), ISBN 9780618694068, page 111:

My mother and Cordelia were blackberrying along the woods edge of a nearby meadow.

* 2001 , Thomas Keneally, Victim of the Aurora , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2001), ISBN 9780156007337, page 72:

My wife and children were blackberrying at the end of the garden and I was simply reading.

* 2004 , Janet Bord, The Traveller's Guide to Fairy Sites: The Landscape and Folklore of Fairyland In England, Wales And Scotland , Gothic Image (2004), ISBN 9780906362648, page 48:

Another instance of someone who is blackberrying and sees fairies can be found at Kingheriot Farm (South-West Wales: Pembrokeshire ): maybe gathering berries puts the percipient into a relaxed or dissociated frame of mind, more conducive to being able to see things that one would perhaps not normally be able to see.

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