pokeberry

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

poke (“Phytolacca americana”) +‎ berry. The first element, poke, is from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Powhatan.[1][2]

Noun

pokeberry (plural pokeberries)

  1. Pokeweed (the plant Phytolacca americana or its dark red or purple fruit).
    • 2014, Lewis Carroll, Byron W. Sewell, Victoria J. Sewell, Alice's Adventures in an Appalachian Wonderland, Evertype, →ISBN, page 5
      considerin in her mind ... iffen the pleasure o gatherin some pokeberries an drawin dark purple picthures on a flat rock wi em would be worth the trouble...

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References

  1. ^ Charles L. Cutler, O Brave New Words!: Native American Loanwords in Current English →ISBN, 2000)
  2. ^ Oxford Dictionary of English →ISBN
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