Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Any one of the various species of Cestrum; also, the boragi-naceous shrub Bourreria succulenta.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible

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Examples

  • If the memory of dark, poison-berry eyes was to haunt me in nightmares, they did not come into the waking world.

    The Door Through Space Marion Zimmer Bradley 1964

  • She looked at me with her dark poison-berry eyes, icy and level and amused, and said, "I will bet _shegri_ with you, unless you fear me,

    The Door Through Space Marion Zimmer Bradley 1964

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