(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 .
Vaccinium
Definition:
(n.) A genus of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reports on anthocyanins include isolated reports on several berry juices and a considerable number of studies on Sambucus niger and Vaccinium myrtillus.
(2) Two examples of standardization are described, one concerning an extract whose therapeutical active constituents are known (anthocyanoside complex of Vaccinium myrtillus) and the other concerning an extract whose constituents must be regarded as chemical markers (Pygeum africamum extract).
(3) The effects of Vaccinium Myrtillus anthocyanosides (Myrtocyan, VMA; CAS 84082-34-8) on arteriolar vasomotion were assessed in cheek pouch microcirculation of anesthetized hamsters and in skeletal muscle microvasculature of unanesthetized hamster skin fold window preparation.
(4) Berries of Vaccinium myrtillus L. were the most digestible of the three foods, contained enough protein and P for maintenance, but were probably deficient in Na.
(5) A Vaccinium myrtillus anthocyanosides preparation (equivalent to 25% of anthocyanidins) demonstrated significant vasoprotective and antioedema properties in exerimental animals.
(6) Vaccinium myrtillus anthocyanosides by oral route inhibited carrageein paw oedema in rats showing a dose-response relationship.
(7) Treatment of rats with a flavonoid-type drug (anthocyanosides of Vaccinium myrtillus) for 12 days before the induction of hypertension kept the blood-brain barrier permeability normal and limited the increase in vascular permeability in the skin and the aorta wall.
(8) The pharmacokinetics of Vaccinium myrtillus anthocyanosides (VMA) have been investigated in male rats.
(9) Vaccinium myrtillus anthocyanins adminstered by i.v.
(10) Vaccinium myrtillus anthocyanins possess a greater affinity for some tissues, namely kidneys and skin rather than for plasma.
(11) Seven compounds were isolated from the radix of Vaccinium scopulorum.
(12) In view of the pharmacological interest in phenolic substances, we have determined the total amount of anthocyanins and polyphenols present in the berries of several cultivars of Ribes, Rubus, and Vaccinium genera.
(13) We have studied the effect of treatment with anthocyanosides from Vaccinium myrtillis on cholesterol-induced atheroma of rabbits.
(14) Treatment of the rats with anthocyanosides of Vaccinium myrtillis diminishes the permeability increasing effect of collagenase and accelerate the recovery of normal permeability.