Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as blue-tangle.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An ericaceous flowering plant in the genus Gaylussacia.
  • noun Its dark blue edible berry with white bloom.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit
  • noun huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit

Etymologies

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dangle +‎ berry

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Examples

  • The dangleberry is a juicy, sweet, blue-black berry.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • The dangleberry is a juicy, sweet, blue-black berry.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • The dangleberry is a juicy, sweet, blue-black berry.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Lowland forest understory growth tends to be more varied than upland growth, with sheep laurel, stagger-bush, dangleberry, black huckleberry, and sweet pepperbush as prominent shrubs.

    Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Jersey 2007

  • I wonder whether Gorbals Mick would rule it out of order if he were to describe a Tory MP as a "treacherous dangleberry?"

    Labour Blogger Wants to be MP 2007

  • And now you're joking about it you ... you ... hapless dangleberry?

    TV Scoop 2009

  • And now you're joking about it you ... you ... hapless dangleberry?

    TV Scoop 2009

  • (£2,268), new grommets (£112), set of hexagonal tag nuts and dangleberry adapter (£35) and new piss-take valves (£120).

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • (£2,268), new grommets (£112), set of hexagonal tag nuts and dangleberry adapter (£35) and new piss-take valves (£120).

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • (£2,268), new grommets (£112), set of hexagonal tag nuts and dangleberry adapter (£35) and new piss-take valves (£120).

    Army Rumour Service 2010

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