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whorled milkweed | whorler | whorlywort | whort | whortle | whortleberry | whose | whosesoever | whoso | whosoever | whot

whortleberry

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whor=tle=ber=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

whortleberryn. [AS. wyrtil a small shrub (dim. of wyrt wort) + E. berry. See Wort, and cf. Huckleberry, Hurtleberry.].
     In England, the fruit of Vaccinium Myrtillus; also, the plant itself. See Bilberry, 1.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

whortleberry, n. (pl. -ies) a bilberry.

Etymology
16th c.: dial. form of hurtleberry, ME, of unkn. orig.

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