Definition of black huckleberry
1 : a rather low shrub (Gaylussacia baccata) of eastern North America that produces a shining black somewhat acid drupe and that is the best known of the huckleberries
2 : the fruit of the black huckleberry broadly : any huckleberry black in color — compare dangleberry
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