Whortleberry

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Whortleberry \Whor"tle*ber`ry\, n. [AS. wyrtil a small shrub
     (dim. of wyrt wort) + E. berry. See {Wort}, and cf.
     {Huckleberry}, {Hurtleberry}.] (Bot.)
     (a) In England, the fruit of {Vaccinium Myrtillus}; also, the
         plant itself. See {Bilberry}, 1.
     (b) The fruit of several shrubby plants of the genus


         {Gaylussacia}; also, any one of these plants. See
         {Huckleberry}.
         [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  whortleberry
       n 1: erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and
            blue-black berries [syn: {bilberry}, {whinberry}, {blaeberry},
             {Viccinium myrtillus}]
       2: blue-black berries similar to American blueberries [syn: {bilberry},
           {European blueberry}]