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FARKLEBERRY
farkleberry, sparkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum
(noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
farkleberry (countable and uncountable, plural farkleberries)
(uncountable) A species of Vaccinium (Vaccinium arboreum) native to the southeastern United States, from southern Virginia west to southeastern Missouri, and south to Florida and eastern Texas, and taking the form of a shrub (rarely a small tree) growing to 3-5 m (rarely 9 m) tall.
(countable) A berry from a shrub of this species.
Synonyms
• sparkleberry
Source: Wiktionary
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