huckleberry

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈhʌkl̩ˌbɛɹi/

名詞

俗語 アメリカ英語

A small round fruit of a dark blue or red color of several plants in the related genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia. / A shrub growing this fruit.

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On our hike we stopped to pick ripe huckleberry from the low bushes and enjoyed their sweet-tart flavor.

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意味（1）

A small round fruit of a dark blue or red color of several plants in the related genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia.

I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

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意味（2）

A shrub growing this fruit.

意味（3）

A small amount, a short distance, as in the phrase huckleberry above a persimmon.

Porter preferred prose to poetry. Prose seemed to him to be a concrete, practical form of expression. But poetry, as he informed a poet who signed his name “Evergreen,” was “a huckleberry beyond us.”

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意味（4）

(slang) A person of little consequence.

意味（5）

(US, slang) The person one is looking for; the right person for the job.

I'm your huckleberry.

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huckleberries （ plural ）