Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
pokeweed .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Poke (
Phytolacca decandra ).
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- noun botany
poke (Phytolacca decandra)
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- noun tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous
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Examples
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Ant so you puts a tog into mein stone-heap, and you steps onto mein grass, ant you knock ober all mein beautiful mullein-stalks and mein thistles and mein scoke-veeds! "
The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902
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