whortleberry Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries
    whinberry; blaeberry; Viccinium myrtillus; bilberry.
  2. noun blue-black berries similar to American blueberries
    European blueberry; bilberry.

WordNet

Whor"tle*ber`ry noun
Etymology
AS. wyrtil a small shrub (dim. of wyrt wort) + E. berry. See Wort, and cf. Huckleberry, Hurtleberry.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) (a) In England, the fruit of Vaccinium Myrtillus; also, the plant itself. See Bilberry, 1. (b) The fruit of several shrubby plants of the genus Gaylussacia; also, any one of these plants. See Huckleberry.

Webster 1913