hurtleberry
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English hurtil-beri (“bilberry or blue whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); berry of this shrub”);[1] further etymology unknown, compare Middle English horten, hurten (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”), and Old English horte (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɜːtl̩bɛɹi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhɜɹt(ə)lˌbɛɹi/, [-ɾ(ə)l-]
- Hyphenation: hurt‧le‧ber‧ry
Noun
[edit]hurtleberry (plural hurtleberries)
- Synonym of whortleberry
References
[edit]- ^ “hurtil-berī, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “horten, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007: see the supplemental materials (the original gloss states “some kind of fruit tree; ?the cornel cherry”).
Further reading
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Vaccinium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Vaccinium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons 
Vaccinium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies - Joseph Wright, editor (1902), “HURTLEBERRY, sb.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume III (H–L), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 291, column 1.