1. Also called : huckleberry or (dialect) hurt, whort
a small Eurasian ericaceous shrub, Vaccinium myrtillus, greenish-pink flowers and edible sweet blackish berries
2.
the fruit of this shrub
3. bog whortleberry
Word origin
C16: southwestern English dialect form of hurtleberry; of unknown origin
Examples of 'whortleberries' in a sentence
whortleberries
We descended among crab apples, sloes and whortleberries, and crossed the brook by a stout old clapper bridge.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Other names for them are blaeberries, whinberries and whortleberries.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
They are also called blaeberries, whinberries and whortleberries.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
All related terms of 'whortleberries'
fraughan
a small Eurasian ericaceous shrub, Vaccinium myrtillus , greenish-pink flowers and edible sweet blackish berries
whortleberry
a small Eurasian ericaceous shrub, Vaccinium myrtillus , greenish-pink flowers and edible sweet blackish berries
whimberry
a berry-bearing shrub
bog whortleberry
a plant, Vaccinium uliginosum , of mountain regions , having pink flowers and black fruits
red whortleberry
a creeping ericaceous evergreen shrub, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, of N temperate and arctic regions, with pink or red flowers and edible slightly acid berries