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pokeweed
[ pohk-weed ]
noun
- any of numerous and usually toxic plants of the genus Phytolacca, including P. americana, of North America, having juicy purple berries and a purple root used in folk medicine, and young shoots resembling asparagus: pokeweed species vary greatly in height, with some growing to about 3.2 feet (1 meter) and others as tall as 82 feet (25 meters).
pokeweed
/ ˈpəʊkˌwiːd /
noun
- a tall North American plant, Phytolacca americana, that has small white flowers, juicy purple berries, and a poisonous purple root used medicinally: family Phytolaccaceae Sometimes shortened topoke Also calledinkberry
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Mr. Pokeweed was promptly on hand, and tore madly into the burning pile, whence he soon emerged with a nude female.
Just then the front wall toppled outward, and Pokeweed cleared the street at a single bound.
Rivina, ri-vī′na, n. a genus of apetalous plants, the pokeweed family.
Finely dressed visitors have come to the blue-berried juniper and the monstrous pokeweed of the terra-cotta stem.
Is there anywhere a more audacious beauty than the pokeweed in autumn?
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