noun
- a small dark blue or black berry, especially a bilberry or huckleberry
Usage: chiefly British; dialectal
Examples
- The children gathered whorts from the hillside bushes.
- She made a delicious pie with fresh whorts from the moor.
- The whorts were ripe and ready for picking in late summer.
- Local folklore claimed that whorts had special healing properties.
- We found patches of whorts growing wild in the forest.