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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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
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
Wild fruits such as grape and pokeberry also showed up in trace amounts.
From Food of the Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm, in South-central Kansas by Dwight Platt
It was difficult to keep from protesting when the work carried them around the lake shore and to the pokeberry beds, for the colour of these she loved.
From The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter
The letter was written on blue-lined paper in red pokeberry ink.
From A Certain Rich Man by William Allen White
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
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
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
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