Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The blackish-red berry of the pokeweed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The fruit of the pokeweed.
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- noun
Pokeweed (the plant or its fruit).
Etymologies
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Examples
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- I do believe the pokeberry leaf is referred to as poke salat but has to be boiled to death to remove the toxins!
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I have recently seen quite a bit of the variegated pokeberry.
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We are awash in these berries from the native pokeberry plant, Phytolacca americana.
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In addition to combing trees for beetle larvae and ants, these woodpeckers also eat the fruits of southern bayberry, magnolias, wild grape, poison-ivy, pokeberry, blueberry, cherries, blackgum, and pecan.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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In addition to combing trees for beetle larvae and ants, these woodpeckers also eat the fruits of southern bayberry, magnolias, wild grape, poison-ivy, pokeberry, blueberry, cherries, blackgum, and pecan.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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In addition to combing trees for beetle larvae and ants, these woodpeckers also eat the fruits of southern bayberry, magnolias, wild grape, poison-ivy, pokeberry, blueberry, cherries, blackgum, and pecan.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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No muzzle flashes -- but what was that, flapping from behind a pokeberry bush?
The Guns Of The South Turtledove, Harry 1960
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MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITIES: Extracts of cramp bark, forty grains; blue cohosh, ten grains; Squaw wine, forty grains; pokeberry, twenty grains; strychnine, one grain.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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On the contrary they eat the most undesirable of the wild fruit, chokeberry, pokeberry, Virginia creeper, bitter-sweet and sumac, as well as large quantities of ragweed seeds.
Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory
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His color is peculiar, and looks as if it might have been imparted by dipping a brown bird in diluted pokeberry juice.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various
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