Dangleberry vs. Huckleberry — What's the Difference?

An ericaceous flowering plant in the genus Gaylussacia.

Huckleberry is a name used in North America for several plants in the family Ericaceae, in two closely related genera: Vaccinium and Gaylussacia. The huckleberry is the state fruit of Idaho.

The white-bloomed dark blue edible berry of this plant.

Any of various evergreen or deciduous shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia in the heath family, especially those found in eastern North America, bearing edible bluish-black berries containing hard seedlike nutlets.

A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.

Any of various erect deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Vaccinium in the heath family, primarily of western North America, having edible blackish, blue, or red berries.

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

The fruit of any of these plants.

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.

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

(slang) A person of little consequence.

The person one is looking for; the right person for the job.

(intransitive) To pick huckleberries.

The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of the American genus Gaylussacia, shrubs nearly related to the blueberries (Vaccinium), and formerly confused with them. The commonest huckelberry comes from Gaylussacia resinosa.

Any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberries

Any of several shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia bearing small berries resembling blueberries

Blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States