pokeroot

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English

Etymology

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

Noun

pokeroot (countable and uncountable, plural pokeroots)

  1. Pokeweed.

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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