crackleberry

English

Noun

crackleberry (plural crackleberries)

1. (US, dialectal) The high-bush huckleberry, Gaylussacia baccata, native to eastern North America, or the fruit of this shrub
   • 1945, John Moore, Indian Paul:

     All the crackleberries had spilled out on the floor.

2. (fantasy) An imaginary shrub, or the fruit of this shrub
   • 1997, Jack Vance, The Demon Princes: The Face, page 86:

     Four tall pointane trees, each a perfect teardrop, stood surrounded by a low hedge of russet crackleberry.

   • 2005, Charles Coleman Finlay, The Prodigal Troll‎^[1], page 25:

     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.

Synonyms

• huckleberry
• whortleberry

See also

• cackleberry