whortle bush

English

Etymology

whortle +‎ bush

Pronunciation

Noun

whortle bush (plural whortle bushes)

  1. Any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium, bearing fruit known as whortleberries.
    • 1652, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physitian‎, London: Peter Cole, page 16:
      The Red Bilberry, or whortle-bush, riseth up like the [Black], having sundry harder Leaves, like the Box-Tree Leaves, green and round pointed standing on the several Branches […]
    • 1882, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, chapter 4, in Christowell: A Dartmoor Tale‎, volume 2, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, page 69:
      With a short breath of wonder, and a long one of delight, Rose stopped, and sat down by a low whortle-bush, with a pink frill still adorning it.
    • 1889, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 23, in Micah Clarke‎:
      My course ran along by the foot of the beautiful Quantock Hills, where heavy-wooded coombes are scattered over the broad heathery downs, deep with bracken and whortle-bushes.
    • 1915, Maud Doria Haviland, chapter 9, in A Summer on the Yenisei‎, London: Edward Arnold, page 193:
      The bird feigned a broken wing, and Vassilli, falling into the trap, instead of shooting her at once, followed her as she dodged through the whortle bushes.

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