■ noun ( plural huckleberries )
1》 a soft edible blue-black fruit resembling a currant.
2》 the low-growing North American plant of the heath family which bears the ~. [Genus Gaylussacia .]
Origin
C16: prob. orig. a dialect name for the bilberry, from dialect huckle 'hip, haunch' (because of the plant's jointed stems).