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
As he spoke, he went to the tall chest of drawers and took out paper, a bottle of pokeberry ink, and a bunch of quills.
From Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge by Mary Addams Bayne
Sassafras yielded its savory roots for tea and tonics, and the purplish red pokeberry supplied a valuable blood purifier.
From Followers of the Trail by William F. (William Frederick) Stecher
I spent the day in buying from a farmer a full Quaker dress, and stained my face that night a fine brownish tint with stale pokeberry juice.
From Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
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
It came to rest behind a clump of pokeberries.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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
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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