huckleberry

 
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌk(ə)lb(ə)ri/

noun (plural huckleberries)

  • 1a soft edible blue-black fruit resembling a currant.
  • 2the low-growing North American plant of the heather family which bears the huckleberry.
    • Genus Gaylussacia, family Ericaceae

Origin:

late 16th century: probably originally a dialect name for the bilberry, from dialect huckle 'hip, haunch' (because of the plant's jointed stems)