pokeberry
Americannoun
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Also called: inkberry. the berry of the pokeweed
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another name for the pokeweed
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Origin of pokeberry
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Instead, I made her a cornhusk doll, painting a face on it with pokeberry juice and fashioning a gown for it with a piece of cambric from Becky’s scrap bag.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
It was as red as pokeberry juice and anything that color was supposed to be healthy.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
The aster and goldenrod, the dried ironweed and sumach, the red rose hips and magenta pokeberry stalks looked dead enough now, dead and dreary upon the weary, weary road.
From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary
The rascal had not used his own blood, but a red powder and the juice of the pokeberry.
From Bolanyo by Read, Opie Percival
The locusts shrilled, the pines gave no shade, in the angle of the snake fences pokeberry and sumach drooped their dusty leaves.
From Lewis Rand by Johnston, Mary
They even sent each other gifts, including photographs and ink made from walnuts and pokeberries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
Abraham Lincoln had loaded his musket with squashy, scarlet-juiced pokeberries.
From Time Magazine Archive
A black pencil had made her eyebrows, and her cheeks and her mouth were red with the ink made from pokeberries.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
It came to rest behind a clump of pokeberries.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
There were harsher plants as well—spiked jimson weeds and poisonous dark pokeberries, and bees droning everywhere.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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