phytolacca

See also: Phytolacca

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek φῠτόν (phutón, “plant”) + (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian lacca (“lac”)

Noun

phytolacca (plural phytolaccas)

1. (botany) Any of the genus Phytolacca of herbaceous plants; the poke or pokeweed.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “phytolacca”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)