What's the difference between berry and huckleberry?

Berry


Definition:

  • (n.) Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.
  • (n.) A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry.
  • (n.) The coffee bean.
  • (n.) One of the ova or eggs of a fish.
  • (v. i.) To bear or produce berries.
  • (n.) A mound; a hillock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pain relieved by antacids, age above 40 years, previous peptic ulcer disease, male sex, symptoms provoked by berries, and night pain relieved by antacids and food were found to predict organic dyspepsia with a sensitivity and specificity of approximately 70%, when applied on the observed material.
  • (2) The observations have been compared with those of Berry and Berry (1967) on Ashanti race of Nigerians.
  • (3) Total thyroidectomy removes all visible thyroid tissue although it is permissible to leave a very small remnant of tissue (less than a fraction of a gram) in the region of the ligament of Berry in order to protect the recurrent laryngeal nerve and the blood supply to the parathyroid glands.
  • (4) "Numerous studies have shown that, at higher speeds, traffic flow becomes more unstable," said Berry.
  • (5) Antibodies to immunoglobulins (Ig) M, G, and A against Yersinia enterocolitica serotypes O:3, O:5, O:8, and O:9 and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis serotypes I and III were analyzed by enzyme immunoassay of the serum samples of 161 slaughterhouse workers, 147 pig farmers, and 114 grain or berry farmers.
  • (6) @HunterFelt October 28, 2013 Nothing came of it, but Berry did his job there.
  • (7) Radiological investigation showed an anterior communicating aneurysm, and postmortem examination confirmed the aneurysm to be a so-called "berry" aneurysm.
  • (8) Carole Berry, of Rollingsons Solicitors, said: "I had a simultaneous exchange of contracts on the 23 December to make sure the deal went through in time.
  • (9) The trust said records suggested this year had yielded the best crops of autumn fruit and berries – particularly blackberries, rowan berries and elderberries – since it began the "citizen science" project 12 years ago.
  • (10) Remove the red and black currants from their stalks and add to the berries, then tip in the water and sugar and bring to the boil.
  • (11) Three ways with cider vinegar • Winter salad dressing Boil two shallots with a few juniper berries and thyme leaves, then reduce 150ml cider vinegar by half and mix with the above.
  • (12) One patient had multiple vascular malformations including telangiectasias of the brain, medulla, and spinal cord and a berry aneurysm of the internal carotid artery; she also had a large cerebellar abscess, presumably reflecting the presence of a pulmonary arteriovenous fistula.
  • (13) The show stars Berry as a jobbing actor with vaunting ambition who gets into surreal scrapes, with a supporting cast including Doon Mackichan as his agent and Robert Bathurst as his housemate.
  • (14) Mary Berry I think it works as a show because it is totally honest and I always think we encourage people to bake.
  • (15) Two cases are described here: in one, infection was present; in the other, there was a berry aneurysm of the middle meningeal artery with a small parietal dural angioma.
  • (16) We observed a four-year-old girl with Stevens-Johnson syndrome attributed to ingestion of salmon berries (Rubus spectabilis).
  • (17) When she refuses to watch it, Randy vomits masticated Member Berries on both of them.
  • (18) Two unusual proteins, discovered in African berries, possess the interesting property of having a very high specificity for the sweet receptors.
  • (19) I picked the strawberries growing up the side of my compost loo for breakfast; physalis and ferns were growing inside my shower; I snacked on pitanga, a delicious sweet-sour berry.
  • (20) Here's Berry who represents the tying run, but he strikes out to end the inning and is booed!

Huckleberry


Definition:

  • (n.) The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of the American genus Gaylussacia, shrubs nearly related to the blueberries (Vaccinium), and formerly confused with them. The commonest huckelberry comes from G. resinosa.
  • (n.) The shrub that bears the berries. Called also whortleberry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) cricketed Gatsby is one of the great books of the 20th century but you can't give just one novel the distinction of " Great American novel " because at different points in time that could be applied to many different books, including To Kill A Mockingbird , Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , The Catcher in the Rye, The Grapes of Wrath ; Gatsby isn't even Fitzgerald's best work: go read This Side of Paradise and Tender is the Night.
  • (2) After going solo, Hope landed the role of Huckleberry Haines in Jerome Kern's Roberta - the part played by Fred Astaire in the film version.
  • (3) On the "winter harvest-themed menu" at the White House: First course Brussels sprouts, applewood smoked bacon Second course Spring garden lettuces, shallot dressing, shaved breakfast radish, cucumbers and avocados Main course Bison wellington, a red wine reduction, French beans, cipollini onions Dessert Warm meyer lemon steamed pudding with Idaho huckleberry sauce and newtown pippin apples American wines
  • (4) "All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn … It's the best book we've had.
  • (5) JD Salinger’s Holden Caulfield is to the 20th century what Huckleberry Finn is to the 19th: the unforgettably haunting voice of the adolescent at odds with a troubling world.
  • (6) Like Huckleberry Finn , it was censored, denounced, idolised and mythologised.
  • (7) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was eventually published by Chatto & Windus on 10 December 1884 in Canada and the United Kingdom, and then on 18 February 1885 in the United States by Charles L Webster and Co. (The American edition was delayed thanks to a last-minute change to an illustration plate.)
  • (8) Twain famously announces at the start of Huckleberry Finn that "persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot."
  • (9) In huckleberry season, wolves would alert Indians to the presence of game.
  • (10) As readers have noted since its publication, the plot of Huckleberry Finn , for example, deteriorates markedly at the end; Ernest Hemingway dismissed the story's resolution as a "cheat".
  • (11) Finally, a specific strategy using Mark Twain's novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is offered as an example of how this might be done.
  • (12) My friend, the critic Adam Gopnik, says it is one of the “three perfect books” in American literature (the others are The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Great Gatsby , Nos 23 and 51 in this series).
  • (13) He designed his own board game, as well as "Mark Twain's Patent Self-Pasting Scrapbook", which sounds like something the Duke and Dauphin in Huckleberry Finn might sell.
  • (14) Fielding takes a photo of him on his own mobile: 'Huckleberry Finn'.
  • (15) The opening line of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is pure ear, pure voice, utter authorial confidence.
  • (16) He admits that Tom Sawyer was largely a young Sam Clemens, while Huck Finn was based on a real boy: "In Huckleberry Finn I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was.
  • (17) Instead of being the head of American engineers, he is captain of a huckleberry party."
  • (18) There’s an extensive food menu, but come for the cocktails (try the Portland city streetcar, $12, or the Huckleberry, $10) plus prolonged happy hours (Mon-Sat from 4pm-7pm and from 9pm to closing, Sunday noon to 11pm, drinks from $4.75).
  • (19) chris sparks (@chrisztweetz) @GuardianTeach Huckleberry Finn, In Cold Blood, Snowpiercer, The Grapes of Wrath, No Country for Old Men June 9, 2015 Follow us on Twitter via @GuardianTeach .
  • (20) A note on the text The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn began as a manuscript originally entitled Huckleberry Finn's Autobiography .

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