Definition of Dangle-berry

1. Noun. Huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit.

Exact synonyms: Dangleberry, Gaylussacia Frondosa
Generic synonyms: Huckleberry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dangle-berry

dangerization
dangerless
dangerman
dangermen
dangerous
dangerous behaviour
dangerous goods
dangerous undertaking
dangerously
dangerousness
dangerousnesses
dangers
dangherous
danging
dangle
dangle-berry (current term)
dangleberries
dangleberry
dangled
dangler
danglers
dangles
danglier
dangliest
dangling
dangling modifier
dangling participle
dangling participles
danglingly
danglings

Literary usage of Dangle-berry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"G. frondosa, dangle-berry, or blue tangle, inhabits mostly low ground from Florida and Louisiana northward to New England. When in bloom, or showing its ..."

2. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"Leaves deciduous. stamin'eum, (squaw whortleberry, deer berry, dangle berry. O. w. M. Uvularia. So named from the throat of the flowers; being similar to ..."

3. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"I never noticed it in such abundance before. My shoes are green-yellow, or yellow-green, even the next day with it. dangle-berry well out, how long ? ..."

4. The MAGAZINE of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and (1857)
"... dangle-berry, sometimes called bullet-berries. This is a late species, but the fruit is large and ..."

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