box huckleberry

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   creeping evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having small shiny boxlike leaves and flavorless berries

   SynonymsGaylussacia brachycera

   Broaderhuckleberry

Questions about box huckleberry

What does box huckleberry mean?

box huckleberry means "creeping evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having small shiny boxlike leaves and flavorless berries".

What is another word for box huckleberry?

Close synonyms include Gaylussacia brachycera. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is box huckleberry a common word?

box huckleberry is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.