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What is a whortleberry?

What is a whortleberry? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium:
    1. Vaccinium myrtillus (bilberry or blue whortleberry);
    2. Vaccinium vitis-idaea (lingonberry or red whortleberry);
    3. Vaccinium uliginosum (bog whortleberry or bilberry}.
  2. A berry of one of these shrubs.
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The Wurm came to grief when a whortleberry picker called Joe Tottle inadvertently chopped it in half with an axe while drunk on cider.
The plain is now grown up with poplar, hazle-bush, scrub-oak, and whortleberry.
Under our feet was the purple heath with great patches of whortleberry, that tiny shrub that bears the little purply grey fruit.
Raspberry, blackberry and whortleberry may be made the same.
Then I darted back to Cairo, in a taxi driven by a Nubian youth, so black that he was almost blue, like a whortleberry.
Vaccinium myrtillus is a member of the Ericaceae family, and is also known as European blueberry, huckleberry, whortleberry, or blueberry.

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