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Definitions for whortleberry
ˈʰwɜr tlˌbɛr i, ˈwɜr-whortle·ber·ry
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Princeton's WordNet
bilberry, whortleberry, whinberry, blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillusnoun
erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries
bilberry, whortleberry, European blueberrynoun
blue-black berries similar to American blueberries
Wiktionary
whortleberrynoun
any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium
whortleberrynoun
the berry of one of these shrubs
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Whortleberrynoun
Bilberry. A plant.
Etymology: heortberian , Saxon.
The flower consists of one leaf, shaped like a pitcher; from whose empalement arises the pointal, fixed like a nail in the upper part of the flower, which becomes a soft umbilicated fruit or berry full of juice, in which are inclosed seeds, for the most part small. Philip Miller.
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whortleberry
A whortleberry is a type of small, usually purple or black, edible berry. It can refer to various types of wild berries, but most commonly refers to fruits from the Vaccinium genus, including species such as Vaccinium myrtillus (also known as bilberry or European blueberry) and Vaccinium vitis-idaea (known as lingonberry or cowberry). The term is mainly used in the United Kingdom.
Webster Dictionary
Whortleberrynoun
in England, the fruit of Vaccinium Myrtillus; also, the plant itself. See Bilberry, 1
Whortleberrynoun
the fruit of several shrubby plants of the genus Gaylussacia; also, any one of these plants. See Huckleberry
Etymology: [AS. wyrtil a small shrub (dim. of wyrt wort) + E. berry. See Wort, and cf. Huckleberry, Hurtleberry.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Whortleberry
hwor′tl-ber-i, n. a widely-spread health plant with a purple edible berry, called also the Bilberry—in Scotland, Blaeberry—sometimes abbrev. Whort. [A.S. wyrtil, a shrub (Ger. wurzel, root), dim. of wyrt, root, and berie, berry; confused rather than conn. with A.S. heort berge, berry of the buckthorn.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of whortleberry in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of whortleberry in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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