Whortleberry: Definition and part of speech

Whortleberry

  1. n. The fruit of several shrubby plants of the genus Gaylussacia; also, any one of these plants. See Huckleberry.
  2. n. In England, the fruit of Vaccinium Myrtillus; also, the plant itself. See Bilberry, 1.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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