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Definition of Box huckleberry
1. Noun. Creeping evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having small shiny boxlike leaves and flavorless berries.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Box Huckleberry
Literary usage of Box huckleberry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1919)
"In a careful search along the whole bank not a seedling of the box huckleberry
was found, although the bank did bear seedlings of the closely related plants ..."
2. The Shrubs of Northeastern America by Charles Stedman Newhall (1893)
"Leaves, alternate, entire (excepting in box huckleberry, and sometimes in Dwarf
Huckleberry), and more or less resinous dotted (excepting in Box ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1884)
"Michaux's description and specimen remained for many years the only evidence of
the existence of the box huckleberry in the world. About the year 1846, ..."
4. Our Northern Shrubs and how to Identify Them: A Handbook for the Nature-lover by Harriet Louise Keeler (1903)
"... nor is its fruit very good. Leaves, branchlets, flower stems and calyx are
sprinkled with glandular and resinous dots. box huckleberry ..."
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