pigeonberry

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The pokeweed. See garget, 5, and Phytolacca.
• noun Locally in California, the cascara sagrada, Rhamnus Purshiana. Its fruit is eaten by wild pigeons, to whose flesh it imparts a bitter flavor.
• noun Locally elsewhere in North America: the dwarf raspberry, Rubus Americanus;
• noun the northwestern service-berry, Amelanchier alnifolia;
• noun the bristly sarsaparilla, Aralia hispida;
• noun the alternate-leafed dogwood, Cornus alternifolia;
• noun the partridge-berry, Mitchella repens.