Crackleberry
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Crackleberry is a noun meaning (US, dialectal) The high-bush huckleberry, Gaylussacia baccata, native to eastern North America, or the fruit of this shrub.
Meaning
(US, dialectal) The high-bush huckleberry, Gaylussacia baccata, native to eastern North America, or the fruit of this shrub.
More Meanings
- (fantasy) An imaginary shrub, or the fruit of this shrub
Example Sentences
All the crackleberries had spilled out on the floor.
Four tall pointane trees, each a perfect teardrop, stood surrounded by a low hedge of russet crackleberry.
Either the sorcerer's magic, or the filthy moat, or the crackleberries — or all three — had turned his guts to slush and wrung out his bowels.
Word Forms
- crackleberries
Synonyms for crackleberry
Depending on context, synonyms include huckleberry, whortleberry.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include buckberry, crackerberry, huckleberry, brierberry, bramberry, briarberry.
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